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Assailant in sword attack on Swedish school dead: Police

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A masked man armed with a sword who killed two people in a school in southwestern Sweden and injured two others before being shot by police has died, police said Thursday.

"The assailant is dead," police investigator Thord Haraldsson told reporters.

A masked man armed with a sword who killed two people in a school in southwestern Sweden and injured two others before being shot by police has died, police said Thursday.

“The assailant is dead,” police investigator Thord Haraldsson told reporters.

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