Finnish police announced that a 12-year-old child was killed and two others were seriously injured after a classmate opened fire on Tuesday at a school located north of the capital Helsinki, according to the AFP agency.
“Today, after 9:00 a.m., there was an armed incident at a school … in which a sixth-grader, a student of the school, died,” Ilkka Koskimaki, head of the eastern Uusimaa police department, said in – a press conference.
According to him, two other people were “seriously injured”.
Initially, police had announced that three minors were injured in a shootout at a school in Vantaa, north of Helsinki, on Tuesday, and a suspect, also a minor, was arrested.
“There were injuries from the shootings. The suspect is in custody,” the police said.
The victims were taken to hospital, a police spokesman told Reuters. The shootings took place at the Viertola school in Vantaa, a suburb of the capital Helsinki, which has about 800 students in grades I-IX and a staff of about 90, according to the local municipality.
“Immediate danger was averted,” Viertola school principal Sari Laasila said, declining to comment further on the incident.
