Child killed, two wounded in school shooting near Finnish capital

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Child killed, two wounded in school shooting near Finnish capital
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One child was killed and two seriously wounded in a shooting at a school outside the Finnish capital on April 2, police said. A 12-year-old fellow pupil suspected of the attack has been taken into custody.

One child was killed and two seriously wounded in a shooting at a school outside the Finnish capital on April 2, police said. A 12-year-old fellow pupil suspected of the attack has been taken into custody. In 2007, student Pekka-Eric Auvinen shot and killed six students, the school nurse, the principal, and himself using a handgun at Jokela High School, near Helsinki. A year later, in 2008, Matti Saari, also a student, opened fire at a vocational school in Kauhajoki in northwest Finland .

He killed nine students and one male staff member before turning the gun on himself. The Raumanmeri school shooting in 1989 was the first school shooting in the country's history. A 14-year-old student fatally shot two of his classmates in Rauma in Western Finland. Being under the age of 15, he never faced any criminal charges

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