Looks like it's time to ban swords and knives

Teacher, student killed in stabbing attack on Swedish school

Associated Press By JAN M. OLSEN, Associated Press8 hrs ago   

A masked man wielding what looked like a sword stabbed four people Thursday at a school in southern Sweden, killing a teacher and a student before being shot dead by police, authorities said. One student thought he was playing a Halloween prank.

Students fled from Kronan school in Trollhattan, near Goteborg, Sweden's second-largest city, after the morning attack in a public cafe in the school's lobby, police said. The school has 400 students ranging from pre-school to high school.
Trollhattan, located 350 kilometers (220 miles) southwest of Stockholm, is a former industrial city of 56,000 people with a large immigrant community.
Police arrived at the school to find one male teacher already dead and three other people seriously wounded — two boys aged 11 and 15 and another male teacher, police spokesman Thomas Fuxborg told The Associated Press. Police fired two shots, one of which hit the attacker, he said.
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