A decision to close two schools in the Swedish city of Trollhättan and bus the students to other schools in the area, in a bid to reduce segregation, is expected to be made on Tuesday.
We're wrong to blame acts of violence on racism alone, argues equality strategist Marcus Svensson two years after a far-right sympathizer killed three people at the Kronan school in Trollhättan.
Hundreds of people on Saturday turned out for a torchlight procession in the small town of Trollhättan in southwestern Sweden to honour the victims of last year’s deadly school attack there.
Police in south-western Swedish city Trollhättan were set to hold meetings with members of the local municipality on Thursday, following a second night of unexplained disturbances in the area.
More than 200 school children and teachers have been told they can apply for compensation following the deadly attacks by a sword-wielding 21-year-old last November.
The sword-wielding man who killed three people in a school attack last year was motivated by racial hatred and had spent two weeks planning the attack, police have revealed.
A 15-year-old boy has died from knife wounds after an argument with a younger pupil escalated at a school in southern Sweden, police reported on Monday afternoon.
Trollhättan pupils and staff on Thursday turned out to remember one of their favourite teachers who became the third victim of a far-right killer in a rare Swedish school attack.
Four weeks after a masked man attacked pupils and staff in Sweden's first school massacre since the 1960s, children in Trollhättan say they're still scared, while community leaders are fighting to restore the town's peaceful reputation.
A teacher who was left fighting for his life when a masked swordman stabbed him in the stomach is on the road to recovery, following the attack in which a pupil and a teaching assistant died.
Swedish police have described the moment they shot dead a 21-year-old swordman who killed two in an attack on a school in Trollhättan in western Sweden in October.
A 15-year-old boy has spoken of the moment a masked swordman stabbed him in the stomach, after killing one of his fellow pupils and a teaching assistant in an attack on a Trollhättan school.
A Swedish school was still in mourning when it reopened on Monday, more than a week after an attack which saw a sword-wielding knifeman kill a pupil and teaching assistant.
UPDATED: A ceremony has been held to remember Ahmed Hassan, the 15-year-old Swedish Somali boy killed in the school attack in Trollhättan, days after a huge funeral took place for the teaching assistant who also died.
Police in west Sweden have revealed that a second pupil survived being struck by the Trollhättan sword attacker last week, during the stabbings which killed another teenage pupil and teaching assistant and put two others in hospital.
UPDATED: Around 1500 people gathered to pay tribute to a teaching assistant who was killed when he tried to protect his pupils from a sword attacker last week.
UPDATED: A 15-year-old Trollhättan pupil has told Swedish police for the first time of the moment he was attacked by a sword-wielding man, who killed one of his fellow schoolmates and a teaching assistant.
Swedes are rallying behind a Facebook campaign for the teaching assistant killed in the Trollhättan stabbing attack to be awarded a medal. The Local has spoken to the man behind the initiative.
UPDATED: Teachers and other staff at a Swedish school where two people were killed in a sword attack are receiving psychological help as they prepare to reopen the school to pupils next week.
UPDATE: Hundreds gathered in Trollhättan on Sunday to observe a moment of silence at 2 pm to remember the victims of last week’s school attack there that took the lives of a student, a teaching assistant and the attacker himself.
UPDATED: Swedish police warned Halloween revellers not to use fake weapons as part of their fancy dress outfits as a country still shaken by a fatal school stabbing was trying to get back on its feet.
