Shots at a primary school in Finland: child (12) dead - suspected perpetrator himself still a student. Two other twelve-year-olds were seriously injured in the crime.
Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said he was “deeply shocked’ by the incident in Vantaa. Around 800 children between the ages of seven and 15 are taught at the affected school. There are around 1.5 million firearms in circulation in the country. As recently as 2019, one person was killed and ten others injured in an attack on a vocational school.