Killer clown stabs teenager in the middle of the street as creepy craze takes a sinister turn
Youth was stabbed in the shoulder by the violent jester in Sweden leaving him with minor injuries
A CLOWN knifeman has stabbed a teenager in Sweden, police have confirmed.
The terrified youngster was knifed by the man while he smoked a cigarette in the middle of the street.
He suffered minor injuries and will make a full recovery after the man plunged a knife into his shoulder.
But the attack continues a sinister shift in the killer clown craze towards violence.
The incident is just one of hundreds that have swept across the UK, mainland Europe and the USA.
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Police confirmed they are now hunting for the knife-wielding jester in the Swedish town of Varberg, south of Gothenburg.
Spokesperson Ulla Brehm said: "We do not know what prompted this. It was not a robbery, and I do not know if they had fought before."
He added: "It's hard to say if this is something that has to do with the trend that has come from the US, but there was a clown mask on the site."
The incident even prompted Swedish Interior Minister Anders Ygeman to intervene.
He warned: "We don't want to see a situation where a person gets into real trouble because someone, perhaps half joking, puts on a clown mask."
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