Sword-wielding masked man attacks school in Sweden, killing one and injuring three

COPENHAGEN — A knife-wielding masked man attacked people Thursday at a school in southern Sweden, killing one teacher and wounding two students and another teacher before being shot by police, authorities said.

Students fled in the morning from the Kronan school in Trollhattan, near Goteborg, Sweden’s second-largest city. Police in Trollhattan, in a statement, said the attack took place in the school’s cafe area.
Police arrived at the school to find one male teacher already dead and two students and another male teacher wounded, police spokesman Thomas Fuxborg told The Associated Press.
A witness told The Local, an English-language newspaper in Sweden, the attacker was wielding a sword. Stefan Gustavsson, a police spokesman, told the AP the attacker possibly had two blades on him.