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Swedish school attack: second victim dies after stabbings
The Guardian ^ | 10/22/2015

Posted on 10/22/2015 6:41:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

A second person has died after a masked man wielding a “knife-like” weapon carried out a stabbing attack at a school in south-west Sweden, the local hospital has said.

Swedish media reports said the second victim was a boy, but this could not be immediately confirmed. The first person to be fatally injured in the attack at the school in Trolhättan, an industrial city near Gothenburg, was a teacher.

Two other patients, believed to be pupils, remained in a critical condition, but one had stabilised, the hospital said. It was treating the attacker, whom police have identified as a 21-year-old man, for gunshot wounds, according to reports.

Police have said they do not know the motive for the attack. There were conflicting reports as to whether he 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.

Police spokesman Thomas Fuxborg told the Associated Press the attacker carried more than one weapon, including “at least one knife-like object”. Fuxborg said police fired two shots, one of which hit the attacker.

“When 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,” a student told Swedish media.

Some witnesses said the attacker was wearing a Star Wars mask. Others took it to be a Halloween prank.

A statement from the hospital said: “We have four seriously injured patients. All are in surgery right now. One is a teacher and two are students. One is 11 and one 15 years old.

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1 posted on 10/22/2015 6:41:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Here's the frustrating statement from the news article ...

"Police said they still did not know the identity of the attacker, or whether he was a local man."


2 posted on 10/22/2015 6:42:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Another bit of interesting news from the article:

"Two hours before the attack in Trollhättan, officials announced Sweden was expecting to receive as many as 190,000 refugees this year – twice previous estimates."


3 posted on 10/22/2015 6:42:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Hard to believe.


4 posted on 10/22/2015 6:43:59 AM PDT by fivecatsandadog ( What strategy? Tell me what your strategy is and I'll tell you if its working". P. Quinn, Homeland)
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To: SeekAndFind

That tells you all you need to know.


5 posted on 10/22/2015 6:44:03 AM PDT by Vehmgericht
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Well they did do gun laws so now it should be knife laws.


6 posted on 10/22/2015 6:45:50 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: SeekAndFind

How long befor this guy gets invited to the White House with his sword collection?


7 posted on 10/22/2015 6:46:09 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Demonstrates the need for sensible “knife-like” weapon control.
8 posted on 10/22/2015 6:50:23 AM PDT by Gamecock (Preach the gospel daily, use words if necessary is like saying Feed the hungry use food if necessary)
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Is his name ‘Mohammed’ or ‘Sven’?...............................


9 posted on 10/22/2015 6:59:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: SeekAndFind

The perpetrator has died, per a press conference going on now.


10 posted on 10/22/2015 7:06:34 AM PDT by GIdget2004
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To: SeekAndFind

They do continue to allow their otherwise-disarmed subjects to still buy knives without background checks, to own them without even having to be registered, and to store them UNLOCKED, where even children and the mentally ill have access.

Americans simply look at the Swedes with bemusement, dumbfounded. How can a society that savage enough to require that their people not own firearms for self-protection still allow them to own knives, given that events like this tragedy can and do happen? MAKES NO SENSE to civilized Americans.


11 posted on 10/22/2015 7:07:30 AM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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All school zones should be NO sharp-pointy-dangerous-weapon-free-zones.


12 posted on 10/22/2015 7:08:40 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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Disgruntled Viking maybe? I doubt it.

Recent “refugee” maybe? I highly suspect it.


13 posted on 10/22/2015 7:09:52 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Rick Chollett for President!)
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To: SeekAndFind

They know who he is, and are searching his residence, but aren’t releasing his identity yet.


14 posted on 10/22/2015 7:17:45 AM PDT by GIdget2004
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Swedish school attack: second victim dies after stabbings

Was he Muslim?

Check out Sweden's most Wanted. All Muslims. No Swedes. Typical example below.

Ben Abdullah Wael Mahmoud

15 posted on 10/22/2015 7:34:06 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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Howe many Viking descendants name their children Mahmoud?


16 posted on 10/22/2015 7:36:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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They know who he is, and are searching his residence, but aren’t releasing his identity yet.

Because he's not a Swede. He's a Muslim, and releasing his name or picture will inform everyone that another violent Muslim kook has murdered some Swedes. Had he been a Swede, they would have released this information immediately.

The Swedes need more of this. They need more of their people killed until they wake up and start killing or expelling the Muslims.

Their ideas about equality are just wrong, and it will take a lot of bloodshed to convince them that their ideas about equality are wrong.

Hopefully they won't lose so many people that they won't be able to stop the invasion, but they do need to lose enough to convince them that they are wrong.

17 posted on 10/22/2015 7:38:12 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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Population of Sweden = 9.6 million.

190,000 / 9,600,000 X 100 = 1.97 %

Sweden is increasing it’s population by 2 percent annually with Muslim refugees.

“I am Dan Park!”


18 posted on 10/22/2015 7:42:02 AM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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It was a Swede that killed immigrants that I presume were muslims.

2 school children and one teacher apparently.


19 posted on 10/22/2015 7:50:54 AM PDT by Eurotwit (Keep calm and Charlie on!)
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False flag op to decimate support for the anti-invasion politicos.


20 posted on 10/22/2015 7:53:06 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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