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3 children wounded in a school shooting in Helsinki
Police detain a suspect
Special Correspondent
World News
2024-04-02, 2:59pm
3 children wounded in a school shooting in Helsinki
HELSINKI, Apr 02 (AP/UNB) — A shooting at a school in southern Finland wounded three children on Tuesday and police said a suspect was detained.
Police said they received an alert at 09:08 a.m. over a shooting incident at a lower secondary school with some 800 pupils in the city of Vantaa, just outside the capital, Helsinki.
The Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat said the suspect was caught in the Helsinki area later Tuesday.
No other details were immediately available.