two others -- another teacher and student -- were wounded in the attack on the kronan primary and middle school .
students fled from the kronan school in trollhattan , near goteborg , sweden , before police fatally shot him , authorities said .
image copyright afp image caption the suspect apparently posed for photos with pupils ahead of the attack a masked man armed with a sword has killed a pupil and a teacher at a school in sweden .
a knife - wielding masked man stabbed four people thursday at a school in southern sweden " is in shock " .
he was 21 and resident in trollhattan , hospital officials said .
this is a dark day for sweden ' the attack took place on thursday morning at the school , around 75 km from gothenburg , after a man wearing a mask walked into a building on the premises wielding " several knife - like objects " , police said .
two further victims , a pupil and a teacher , are seriously injured .
police fired two male students aged 11 .