Finland has been affected by several school shootings over the years. According to SVT Nyheter's compilation, the deadliest occurred in 2008 when a 22-year-old student killed eleven people.
Tuesday morning's crime is suspected to have been carried out by a twelve-year-old – the youngest perpetrator known to Katie Cohen, an analyst at the Total Defense Research Institute. She tells Expressen that the motives are often very complex, but at the same time human, when children carry out school attacks.
- It is rarely a specific thing, but they often feel left out, feel that they are bullied, alone.
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One child has died in the school attack - two more seriously injured
A child has died in Tuesday morning's shooting at a school in the city of Vantaa in Finland. This is announced by the Finnish police at a press conference. According to the police, the victim must have died instantly.
Two more children have been seriously injured and a perpetrator has been arrested. All, including the child who has died, are twelve years old. According to Iltalehti newspaper, the suspected shooter is a student at the school.
The perpetrator is said to have used a handgun belonging to a close relative, according to the police.
The alarm came in just after 09:00, Finnish time, and the police were on the scene soon after. At 10.45 the school's principal announced that "the immediate danger was over".
The police state that they have launched an investigation and that they are cooperating with the social emergency in Vantaa. The crime classification is one murder and two attempted murders, but since the suspect is twelve years old, the person is not criminally responsible.
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Twelve-year-old suspect arrested in Helsinki: "Little boy"
About an hour after the first alarms about the shooting at a school in the city of Vantaa, the suspected perpetrator was arrested in an area of Helsinki, Finnish media write. According to the police, the arrest took place peacefully.
"The perpetrator had a firearm and the suspected perpetrator and the weapon are in the possession of the police," they write further.
A witness to the incident tells the newspaper Iltalethi that the twelve-year-old "looked like a little boy".
Finland's Minister of the Interior Mari Rantanen writes in X that Tuesday began in a "shocking way".
"I can only imagine the pain and worry that many families are experiencing right now," she writes.
A twelve-year-old child has died after Tuesday morning's crime in Vantaa. Two more twelve-year-olds are seriously injured.
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