{"id":3109,"date":"2015-10-22T19:34:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T19:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2015-10-22T19:34:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T19:34:24","slug":"two-dead-after-masked-man-with-sword-attacks-school-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/two-dead-after-masked-man-with-sword-attacks-school-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead after masked man with sword attacks school in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"

A masked sword-wielding man has killed at least two people and wounded some others at a school in Sweden before being shot by police on Thursday,\u00a0authorities said<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

One male teacher, 20, died following the incident, along with a pupil, whose age was confirmed<\/a><\/span> by police in the evening as 17.<\/p>\n

The attacker broke into a school for children and teens aged between six and 15 in the southwestern town of Trollhattan, near Goteborg, Sweden\u2019s second-largest city, on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the four people brought to hospital has died,\u201d Nicklas Claesson, a hospital spokesman, said.\u00a0Swedish media reports said the fatality was a young male student.<\/p>\n

Another teacher and two boys, aged 11 and 15, were also seriously wounded.<\/p>\n

“The assailant knocked on two classroom doors and he attacked the two students who opened the doors,” police investigator Thord Haraldsson told<\/a><\/span> a press conference in Trollh\u00e4ttan.<\/p>\n

He said that officers called to the scene had fired two shots, with one of them hitting the assailant, after the suspect had first attempted to attack the police.<\/p>\n

Haraldsson said if the police hadn’t reacted as quickly as they did, the situation could have been much worse. Pre-school children had been visiting the school’s library earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

Some pupils have described how they initially thought the man’s appearance was a prank.<\/p>\n

“When we first saw him, we thought it was a joke. He was wearing a mask and black clothes and (carrying) a long sword Some students wanted to take their picture with him and feel the sword,” one unidentified pupil told<\/span>.<\/a><\/p>\n

No information has been disclosed about the masked man, while his motive behind the attack was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n

Eyewitnesses described chaos at the school, with hundreds of students fleeing from the building screaming.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a terrible tragedy, and the people are very anxious,\u201d a police spokesman told media.<\/p>\n

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Police outside the school in Trollhattan. Photo: EPA<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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