Child dies and two injured in Finland school shooting, classmate apprehended
Three children were injured in a shooting at a primary school in Finland early Tuesday, and a suspect, who was also a minor, was later apprehended, police said.
Three 12-year-old children were shot at a school outside Finland's capital on Tuesday and one of the victims later died, police said, with a 12-year-old fellow pupil suspected of the attack taken into custody.
The victims were taken to hospital, a police spokesperson told Reuters. At the school, a building had been cordoned off by police. Parents were picking up their children from another school building.
The arrest had happened peacefully, in the suburb of Siltamaki, away from the school. Both the suspect and the weapon were now in police custody, police said. There were no other suspects for now, police said.
Police officers at the scene of Viertola comprehensive school, in Vantaa, Finland on April 2, 2024.Markku Ulander / APVideo circulating on social media and unverified by Reuters showed two police kneeling at the side of the suspected shooter who was lying face down on a sidewalk. No details about the identities of the children or the condition of the two surviving victims were immediately released.
The shooting took place at the Viertola school in Vantaa, a suburb of Helsinki, which has around 800 pupils from first to ninth grade and a staff of 90, according to the municipality.
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