shooting in a finnish school

Mr T said:

Sorry to hear about this. These stories keep happening all around the world, but they're always a bit of a shock.

I suppose one can only take comfort from the fact that children are still safter in countries like Finland and Britain than a lot of other places....

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These images were taken from the website of Matti Juhani Saari on Tuesday Sept. 23, 2008. Saari whose You Tube postings prompted police to bring him in for questioning opened fire Tuesday Sept. 23, 2008, at his trade school in western Finland, killing 10 people before shooting himself in the head. Witnesses said panic broke out as the Saari entered the school in Kauhajoki, 180 miles northwest of Helsinki, and began firing in a classroom where students were taking an exam.

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Police stand guard at the entrance of the Tampere University Hospital in Tampere, western Finland September 23, 2008 where the suspect in the fatal shooting at a vocational school in Kauhajoki was brought to in critical condition. A student shot dead nine people at a school in western Finland on Tuesday before shooting himself, in the country's second school shooting in less than a year, local media and authorities said.

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Police use the Finnish Army's armoured personnel carriers to seal the area around a school in Kauhajoki where a student shot dead several people before shooting himself September 23, 2008. The death toll from the shooting, the second at a Finnish school in less than a year, remained unclear and there were conflicting media reports about whether the gunman had survived.

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