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WORLD NEWSFriday 23 October 2015

Migrants trade punches, 1 stabbed as tensions boil over

A family walks towards buses at a camp at a border with Slovenia in Spielfeld, Austria, Thursday, boiled over. Many of the migrants
Oct. 22, 2015. Thousands of people are trying to reach central and northern Europe via the Balkans Slovenian police said the spilled out of the facil-
but often have to wait for days in mud and rain at the Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian borders. stabbing took place near ity Thursday but then gath-
Rigonci earlier in the day, ered nearby, following po-
(AP Photo/Petr David Josek) and that the victim was lice instructions. But many
given medical treatment. others walked away from
GEORGE JAHN fled with police at a Ser- border Thursday, as pent- The unrest at Berkasovo the border.
Associated Press bian border crossing and a up pressures on their trek village on the Serbian bor- The collection area just in-
VIENNA (AP) — Migrants man was stabbed in a simi- toward hoped-for safe ha- der subsided after several side the Austrian border
traded punches and scuf- lar clash on the Slovenian ven in the European Union minutes. But the outbreak was again full by after-
reflected the frustrations noon. Police and soldiers
of the tens of thousands of struggled to maintain order
people facing long waits as the crowd surged every
and other hardships as time a group was separat-
they make their way north ed for transport by bus to
over the Balkans each day shelters and processing.
in search of better lives in Trampled, pushed or oth-
prosperous EU countries. erwise hurt, several people
Further along that route, were seen receiving medi-
Austrian police moved to cal attention, including
relieve pent-up pressure one boy, about 8 years old,
which they feared could whose leg was being ban-
lead to violence, removing daged and a younger boy
barriers at an overcrowded being given oxygen. At
collection point at a bor- least two adults were taken
der crossing with Slovenia. away on stretchers.
A day earlier, thousands of A police officer with a loud-
migrants broke through po- speaker urged people to sit
lice obstacles at the same and wait for buses, warning
collection center at the “if you make trouble, we
Spielfeld border point. make trouble.”q

Teacher, student killed in stabbing attack on Swedish school

JAN M. OLSEN Police arrived at the school 14 year-old student at Kro- Maria Randsalu said the Lofven called the deadly
Associated Press to find one male teacher al- nan, said at first he thought second victim was a stu- stabbing attack “a tragedy
A masked man wielding ready dead and three oth- the attacker — who was dent, but did not say which that hits the entire coun-
what looked like a sword er people seriously wound- clad in black and wearing one. The three wounded, try.” He spoke outside the
stabbed four people Thurs- ed — two boys aged 11 a helmet that masked his all in serious condition, un- school in Trollhattan after
day at a school in southern and 15 and another male eyes — had something to derwent surgery at the viewing the lobby where
Sweden, killing a teacher teacher, police spokes- do with Halloween. “One of Norra Alvsborgs Lanssjukhus the attack began.
and a student before be- man Thomas Fuxborg told my friends walked over to hospital. Dr. Lars Spetz told Lofven declined to com-
ing shot dead by police, The Associated Press. Po- him to challenge him, but reporters the teacher had ment on Swedish press re-
authorities said. One stu- lice fired two shots, one of when we saw he stabbed been stabbed in the abdo- ports that the attacker had
dent thought he was play- which hit the attacker, he him (the teacher), we ran men while the two students right-wing sympathies, say-
ing a Halloween prank. said. One student and the away,” Alazze told Swe- were stabbed in the abdo- ing police were still trying to
Students fled from Kronan attacker died later at the den’s TV4. Dagens Nyheter, men, liver and chest. establish a profile of him.
school in Trollhattan, near hospital, authorities said. one of Sweden’s largest “They hover between life “My thoughts go out to the
Goteborg, Sweden’s sec- The attacker, a 21-year-old newspapers, posted a pho- and death,” Spetz said. victims and their families,
ond-largest city, after the from Trollhattan, knocked to of a helmeted man with Swedish media said the the students and staff, and
morning attack in a public on the doors to two class- a dark mask, a dark outfit school held a meeting the whole community,”
cafe in the school’s lobby, rooms and stabbed those and a sword in his hand, Thursday morning to dis- Lofven said earlier. “No
police said. The school has who opened them, police claiming it was the attack- cuss teachers’ fears that words can describe what
400 students ranging from spokesman Thord Haralds- er. The paper said the killer they could not control ac- they are going through
pre-school to high school. son told reporters at a posed with two people cess to the school. Students right now.”
Trollhattan, located 350 ki- press conference. Police before he started his ram- must go through the public King Carl XVI Gustaf said
lometers (220 miles) south- searched the attacker’s page. The attacker had a cafe to reach the school’s Sweden was “in shock” fol-
west of Stockholm, is a for- home and found “interest- gunshot wound to his lower cafeteria and other parts lowing the attack and that
mer industrial city of 56,000 ing” things for their investi- chest and died later Thurs- of the building. the royal family received
people with a large immi- gation, he added, without day at the hospital, officials A sober-looking Swed- the news “with great dis-
grant community. elaborating. Laith Alazze, a said. Police spokeswoman ish Prime Minister Stefan may and sadness.”q