Kungälv school shooting

When

4 Mar 1961

Kind

Shooting

Killed

1

Coordinates

57.87° N, 11.97° E

Description

1961 school shooting in Kungälv, Sweden

Injured

6

1961 school shooting in Kungälv, Sweden

The Kungälv school shooting occurred on 4 March 1961 at Kungälv School in central Kungälv, Västra Götaland, Sweden, in which a gunman shot and killed one person, Per Håkan Altvall, and injured six others. It was the first reported school shooting in Sweden and one of the earliest in Europe.

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