Finnish police say a 12-year-old shot and killed a classmate and seriously wounded two others in a suburb of Helsinki, shocking the nation.
outside the Finnish capital on Tuesday, police said, with a 12-year-old fellow pupil suspected of the attack taken into custody.
There were no other suspects for now, police said. They provided no details of the identity of the suspect or victims, apart from saying they were all 12-year-old Finns and pupils at the school. Police said the motive was not clear. The handgun’s permit belonged to a relative of the suspect, they said.
Anja Hietamies, the mother of an 11-year-old pupil, told Reuters she received a message from her daughter after the shooting.
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