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Many feared dead at school shooting in Finland
Many people are feared dead after a gunman opened fire at a school in Finland, police said.
Last Updated: 10:36AM BST 23 Sep 2008
Witnesses reported hearing numerous shots, raising fears that many people had been injured at the vocational school in the town of Kauhajoki, 120 miles from Helsinki in northwest Finland.
Police said casualties were likely but gave no confirmation on numbers, national broadcaster YLE said on its website.
The shooter is believed to be in the building still, YLE said.
One year ago a gunman killed six students, the school's headmistress and a nurse and injured 10 in a school shooting in in Tuusula, 30 miles north of Helsinki, in southern Finland. The gunman then turned the gun on himself and later died from his wounds in hospital.
The gunman, who had posted footage foreshadowing the November 2007 massacre on video-sharing website YouTube, was a student at the school.
In the video, Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, described himself as a "social Darwinist" who would "eliminate all who I see unfit".
Many people are feared dead after a gunman opened fire at a school in Finland, police said.
Last Updated: 10:36AM BST 23 Sep 2008
Witnesses reported hearing numerous shots, raising fears that many people had been injured at the vocational school in the town of Kauhajoki, 120 miles from Helsinki in northwest Finland.
Police said casualties were likely but gave no confirmation on numbers, national broadcaster YLE said on its website.
The shooter is believed to be in the building still, YLE said.
One year ago a gunman killed six students, the school's headmistress and a nurse and injured 10 in a school shooting in in Tuusula, 30 miles north of Helsinki, in southern Finland. The gunman then turned the gun on himself and later died from his wounds in hospital.
The gunman, who had posted footage foreshadowing the November 2007 massacre on video-sharing website YouTube, was a student at the school.
In the video, Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, described himself as a "social Darwinist" who would "eliminate all who I see unfit".
