The shooting took place at the Viertola school in Vantaa, a suburb of the capital Helsinki
Three 12-year-old children were shot at a school outside the Finnish capital on Tuesday and one of the victims later died, police said, with a 12-year-old fellow pupil suspected of the attack taken into custody.
Video circulating on social media and unverified by Reuters showed two police kneeling at the side of the suspected shooter who was lying face down on a sidewalk. No details about the identities of the children or the condition of the two surviving victims were immediately released. Anja Hietamies, the mother of an 11-year-old pupil, told Reuters she received a message from her daughter after the shooting.
Interior Minister Mari Rantanen said on X: “The day started in a horrifying way … I can only imagine the pain and worry that many families are experiencing at the moment. The suspected perpetrator has been caught.”“My thoughts are with the victims, their loved ones and the other students and staff,” he said on X.In 2007, Pekka-Eric Auvinen shot and killed six students, the school nurse, the principal, and himself using a handgun at Jokela High School, near Helsinki.
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