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ARMED 12 Year-Old Kills Child Wounds Two in Finland School Shooting
Finland Shooting: Child Dead, Two Wounded in Vantaa School Shooting
ARMED 12 Year-Old Pupil Kills Child in Finland School Shooting
BBC 2 APR 2024
Police said they arrested a 12-year-old suspect after the shooting in Vantaa
A child has died and two others have been seriously wounded in a shooting at a school in Finland, police say.
Police said earlier that all three victims were 12 and that a suspect, also aged 12, had been detained.
Parents told Finnish media that the shooting had taken place in a classroom at Viertola school in Vantaa to the north of the capital Helsinki.
Police said they arrived at the school within nine minutes at 09:17 (06:17 GMT) and tended to the three victims.
One of the children died at the scene, they added.
The suspect ran off as soon as police arrived and was eventually detained "in a calm manner" in the northern Siltamaki district of the capital Helsinki at 10:00.
Police said he had been holding a firearm which they had taken from him and he had admitted carrying out the shooting in an initial interview.
They have now opened an investigation into murder and attempted murder.
In common with other Finnish schools, children had just returned to classes in Vantaa, just outside Helsinki, after the long Easter weekend.
Children were told to stay in their classrooms after the attack, public broadcaster YLE reported.
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