A 12-year-old student shot and hurt two students at a school in southern Finland, killing one of the students at the end. The police said the shooting happened on Tuesday morning after arresting the person they thought was the suspect.
The police used a lot of weapons to make a circle around the middle school with about 800 kids in Vantaa, near Helsinki. They got a call about a shooting at 09:08 a. m
The police said that the suspect and the victims were both 12 years old. The police said that they arrested the suspect on Tuesday in Helsinki. They found a handgun with him.
Police said in a press conference that one of the injured students had passed away. Two other people were very hurt, according to Chief of Police Ilka Koskimaki from the Eastern Uusima Police Department.
Petteri Orpo, the leader of Finland, wrote on social media that he was very surprised and upset about the shooting.
In the last few years, Finland has seen two big and deadly shootings at schools.
In November 2007, a student who was 18 years old used a semi-automatic pistol to shoot and kill nine people at Jokela high school in Tuusula, southern Finland. He died from hurting himself on purpose.
In September 2008, a 22-year-old student used a gun to kill 10 people at a college in Finland. Then, he killed himself.
In the country of Finland, there are over 1. 5 million guns and about 430,000 people with gun licenses. In the quiet northern European country, people have been hunting and owning guns for a long time.
Local police departments are in charge of giving out permits for regular guns.
After the school shootings in 2007 and 2008, Finland made its gun laws stricter. They raised the minimum age for owning a gun and gave police more power to check the background of people applying for a gun license.
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12-year-old student kills one person in Finland after shooting at a school
