Finland School Shooting – After opening fire at a secondary school in southern Finland on Tuesday morning, a pupil who was only 12 years old was responsible for the death of one student and the serious injury of two other students, according to the police. He was taken into custody at a later time. Following the receipt of a call regarding a shooting incident at 9:08 in the morning, heavily armed police officers roped off the lower secondary school in the city of Vantaa, which is located just outside of Helsinki, Finland. The school is home to approximately 800 students.
Both the offender and the victims were reportedly 12 years old, according to the police. A handgun was found in the suspect’s hands when he was taken into custody later on Tuesday in the Helsinki area, according to the police agency. It was reported at a press conference by the police that one of the injured kids had passed away. Ilka Koskimaki, the Chief of Police of the Eastern Uusima Police Department, stated that the other two individuals had sustained catastrophic injuries.
It was posted on X by the Prime Minister of Finland, Petteri Orpo, saying he was “deeply shocked” by the shooting. In the previous few decades, Finland has been the site of two major school shootings that resulted in fatalities. Nine individuals were killed when a student who was 18 years old and armed with a semi-automatic pistol opened fire on the premises of the Jokela high school in Tuusula, which is located in the southern region of Finland, in November of 2007. It was discovered that he had self-inflicted lesions on his body.
A little over a year later, in September 2008, a student who was 22 years old used a semi-automatic weapon to shoot and kill ten persons at a vocational college in Kauhajoki, which is located in the southwestern region of Finland. He then took his own life following the shooting. Based on the information provided by the Finnish Interior Ministry, the country of Finland, which has a population of 5.6 million people, has more than 1.5 million licensed firearms and approximately 430,000 license holders. Both hunting and gun ownership have a long history in the country located in the northern part of Europe, which has a scarce population.
Local police agencies are the ones who are responsible for issuing permits for firearms belonging to the general public.
