{"id":20794,"date":"2015-10-22T11:47:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T11:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/sweden-school-attack-teacher-pupil-and-knifeman\/"},"modified":"2015-10-22T11:46:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T11:46:44","slug":"sweden-school-attack-teacher-pupil-and-knifeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/sweden-school-attack-teacher-pupil-and-knifeman\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden school attack: teacher, pupil and knifeman dead"},"content":{"rendered":"
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{{A teacher and pupil have died after being attacked by a masked man who also died after being shot by police in Sweden.{}}}<\/p>\n

The teacher was the first person to be fatally injured in the attack at the school in Trollh\u00e4ttan, an industrial city near Gothenburg. Swedish media reports said the second victim was a boy, but this could not be immediately confirmed. <\/p>\n

Two other victims, believed to be pupils, remained in a critical condition, but one had stabilised, according to hospital officials. <\/p>\n

Police have said they do not know the motive for the attack. There were conflicting reports as to whether the man was armed with a knife or a sword, or both, when he entered the school at about 10am on Thursday. Students locked themselves in classrooms and cupboards to escape. <\/p>\n

Police spokesman Thomas Fuxborg told the Associated Press the attacker carried more than one weapon, including \u201cat least one knife-like object\u201d. Fuxborg said police fired two shots, one of which hit the attacker.<\/p>\n

One student told Swedish media: \u201cWhen we first saw him we thought it was a joke. He had a mask and black clothes and a long sword. There were students who wanted to go with him and hold the sword.\u201d <\/p>\n

Some witnesses said the attacker was wearing a Star Wars mask. Others took it to be a Halloween prank.<\/p>\n

Media reports showed scenes of mayhem at the school, with hundreds of people on the street, screaming children, and a large number of police and ambulances.<\/p>\n

Another pupil at the school told TheLocal.se: \u201cOne of my classmates\u2019 sisters called her to warn her that there was a murderer at the school. So we locked the door to the classroom, but our teacher was still outside in the corridor. We wanted to warn him, so a few of us went outside and then I saw the murderer, he was wearing a mask and had a sword. Our teacher got stabbed. The murderer started chasing me, I ran into another classroom. If I had not run, I would have been murdered.\u201d <\/p>\n

Police said they still did not know the identity of the attacker, or whether he was a local man. The Swedish prime minister, Stefan L\u00f6fven, said on Thursday he was travelling to Trollh\u00e4ttan.<\/p>\n

There has been a tense debate over immigration and asylum in Sweden, with the far right seeking to exploit incidents of violence involving immigrants. In August, a failed asylum seeker stabbed two people to death in an Ikea store near Stockholm, causing outrage. There have also been a spate of apparent arson attacks on refugee accommodation in the past week.<\/p>\n

Two hours before the attack in Trollh\u00e4ttan, officials announced Sweden was expecting to receive as many as 190,000 refugees this year \u2013 double the previous estimates.
\nThe attack took place in Kronog\u00e5rden, a disadvantaged area of the city where more than half the population were born abroad. Trollh\u00e4ttan has been named by researchers the most highly segregated city in Sweden.<\/p>\n

School attacks are rare in Sweden. Since a shooting incident near Gothenburg in 1961, when six young people were injured and one died, there have been no such attacks, although police say they foiled a planned school shooting in Malm\u00f6 in 2004, and threats of violence have occurred elsewhere. <\/p>\n

Kronog\u00e5rden was among 38 neighbourhoods named this month as Sweden\u2019s most vulnerable in a report on \u201cforgotten suburbs\u201d. <\/p>\n

The report\u2019s author, Jan Edling, said: \u201cThese suburbs are big trouble and you cannot say that Sweden is an integrated country. We have used these suburbs as a repository for those that do not fit into normal society.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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