Robert Kindroth, chief of the Swedish Center for Preventing Violent Extremism (CVE), answers The Local's questions on whether the Örebro school attack could have been prevented and what can be done to lessen the risk of future attacks..
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On August 21st, a pupil at a school in central Sweden killed a 17-year-old girl and injured three boys in the second school attack in Sweden in two years. Here's what we know so far.
Another man has been arrested following the school attack in Fagersta on August 21st, the Swedish Prosecution Authority announced on Wednesday morning.
Sweden will form a commission seeking to prevent attacks on schools, days after a 17-year-old girl was killed and three people wounded by a sword-wielding assailant at a high school in Fagersta.
Swedish prosecutors said Sunday that an 18-year-old man arrested during a fatal sword attack at a high school had been remanded in custody on charges of murder and attempted murder.
One person died and three were wounded after a sword-wielding attacker entered a high school in the town of Fagersta in central Sweden Friday, police said, adding the suspect had been arrested.
Several people have been injured in a sword-attack at a school in Fagersta, 200km northeast of Stockholm. The perpetrator has been found and detained.
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