STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A masked swordsman who killed a teaching assistant and a boy and wounded two others sought out his victims, all with immigrant backgrounds, by skin colour in an attack that has fuelled fears that a big refugee influx is polarising Swedish public opinion.
The 21-year-old assailant strode on Thursday through a school in Trollhattan, an industrial town in western Sweden with a large immigrant population, stabbing his victims with the sword before being shot dead by police.
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