Police officers operate at the Viertola comprehensive school in Vantaa, Finland, on April 2, 2024. Three minors were injured in a shooting at the school on Tuesday morning. A suspect, also a minor, has been apprehended.HELSINKI — A 12-year-old child shot and wounded three other 12-year-olds at a school in Finland on Tuesday and the suspect was taken peacefully into custody, police said.
The arrest had happened peacefully and both the suspect and the weapon were now in police custody, police said. No details about the identities of the children or the condition of the victims were immediately released. "The immediate danger is over," the Viertola school's principal Sari Laasila told Reuters, declining to comment further.
A year later, in 2008, Matti Saari, another student, opened fire at a vocational school in Kauhajoki, located in northwest Finland. He killed nine students and one male staff member before turning the gun on himself.
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