A sword-wielding masked attacker has killed a teacher and a pupil and seriously injured two others at a school in western Sweden. A picture has emerged of what local media claims is the assailant posing for pictures with pupils shortly before the attack.
He is carrying a sword and dressed in a black trench coat, mask and helmet.The 21-year-old suspect, who was shot by police at the scene, has since died in hospital.
Police said they were called to reports of a masked attacker in the cafe area of the Kronan school in Trollhattan, north of Sweden’s second-largest city Gothenburg shortly after 10am local time.
The male teacher was pronounced dead at the scene, while another teacher and two pupils, boys aged 11 and 15, were found with severe injuries. It is not yet clear which of the two boys also died a short time later in hospital. Terrifying accounts of the attack reveal that many of the pupils had
initially assumed the killer was dressed up for Halloween. "We thought it was a joke, some sort of a Halloween prank but it
wasn't," 14-year-old Edona said. She said she realised what was happening when other pupils around her started to cry and panic.
A pupil, who did not wish to reveal her name, told Sweden's Aftonbladet newspaper he had been playing strange Halloween music and did not speak.
Another told Sweden's English-speaking news site The Local he was forced to run from the attacker after his teacher was stabbed in front of him.
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