A community in western Sweden is in shock after a masked man with a sword killed a teacher and a pupil at a school. A pupil and a teacher were also
ADVERTISEMENTA community in western Sweden is in shock after a masked man with a sword killed a teacher and a pupil at a school.
A pupil and a teacher were also seriously injured.
The attacker was shot by police and later died from his injuries.
Outside the schoolattack #kronan via
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The alarm was raised at the school in Trollhatten, an industrial town 75 kilometres north of Gothenburg.
Han tog bilden på gärningsmannen – berättar om attacken på #Kronan i Trollhättan för #DN. https://t.co/lad4IspgWbpic.twitter.com/HDmoKcSytU
— Dagens Nyheter (@dagensnyheter) October 22, 2015
The black-clad suspect appears to have posed for photographs with pupils before embarking on his murderous rampage.
“We thought it was a joke, a Halloween prank or something, but it wasn’t,” said one girl. “Lots of pupils started to cry when the teachers and the other pupils were injured.”
The search for a motive
Police have not given any details of a possible motive for the attack.
The attacker’s social media sites have been examined and suggest an interest in neo-Nazi ideology and memorabilia, it has been claimed.