BBC: "Finland shooting: Child dead and two wounded in Vantaa school shooting"

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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.

Finland shooting: Child dead and two wounded in Vantaa school shooting

Police say a shooting north of Helsinki leaves one child dead and a suspect aged 12 in custody.

www.bbc.com

 

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Finland? Thats a new one.

RIP to the victims.