Shooting Spree in Finland school going on now!!

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REUTERS: POLICE SAY SHOOTING INCIDENT AT SCHOOL IN FINLAND, CASUALTIES

LIKELY; INCIDENT ONGOING; SHOOTER STILL IN BUILDING-FINNISH NATIONAL BROADCASTER

The police told the Finnish News Agency (STT) it was possible that a number of people had died in a vocational school shooting in Kauhajoki in southern Ostrobothnia. The shooter remained in one of the school buildings at about midday.

-FoxNews


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Several people are feared dead after a shooting at a college in southern Finland, state media reported Tuesday.

The shots were reported at a college for home- and institutional-economics in the municipality of Kauhajoki, according to YLE, a Finnish national broadcaster.

Police said the shooter was still inside the building, but did not release additional information.

Jukka Forsberg, a maintenance worker at the school, told YLE that several people have suffered injuries. The worker said a man with a ski mask went into the building with a large bag. Soon after, the worker heard shots fired.

Kauhajoki, with a population of about 15,000, is about 180 miles (290km) from the capital, Helsinki.

The incident comes almost a year after another school shooting left nine people, including the gunman, dead in the Finnish town of Tuusala.

Before that shooting, the gunman, 18-year-old student Pekka-Eric Auvinen, posted a video on Web site YouTube titled "Jokela High School Massacre 11/7/2007" -- identifying the date and location of the attack.

Finland enjoys a strong tradition of hunting and has a high proportion of gun ownership, with 2 million firearms owned in a nation of 5 million people

-CNN

 

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The police told the Finnish News Agency (STT) on Tuesday that it was possible that a number of people had died in a vocational school shooting in Kauhajoki in southern Ostrobothnia.

The shooter remained in one of the school buildings at about midday, the police added.

The vocational college is situated in the centre of Kauhajoki, a town of about 15,000 people.

The Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) reported that a 20-year-old man armed with a handgun had been spotted moving about at the school before the shooting started just before 11am.

In a terrifying parallel to last year's Jokela school shooting, which claimed nine lives, references to Youtube clips with a pistol-toting youth emerged in internet chatrooms soon after news of the shooting broke out.

-Finland News Agency

 

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UPDATE

Shooter has been caught and disarmed by the police!!

 

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UPDATE

shooter kills himself

 

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"Several are dead," Kauhajoki Mayor Antti Rantakokko told Reuters, saying he did not know the exact number. "The situation is over now. He is no longer free. He has killed himself."

Media reports say the shootings began just before 11 a.m. (0800 GMT) when there were some 200 students in the building at Kauhajoki, some 180 miles (300 kilometers) northwest of Helsinki.

The Finnish news agency STT said that the school building was on fire and that the gunman possibly had explosives on him.

Finnish media said YouTube clips of a man firing a gun appeared to be linked to the shooting. In one of them, a young man wearing a leather jacket fires several shots in rapid succession with a handgun at what appears to be a shooting range.

The posting was made five days before the shooting and the location was given as Kauhajoki. The posting included a message saying: "Whole life is war and whole life is pain. And you will fight alone in your personal war."

The shootings occurred almost a year after a gunman killed eight people and himself at a school in southern Finland.

Pekka-Eric Auvinen, described by police as a bullied 18-year-old outcast, opened fire at his high school in southern Finland. He killed six students, a school nurse and the principal before ending his own life with a gunshot to the head.

-FoxNews

 

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