3 children wounded in a school shooting in Helsinki, police detain a suspect
By The Associated Press on April 2, 2024.
HELSINKI (AP) – A shooting at a school in southern Finland wounded three children on Tuesday and police said a suspect was detained. Police said they received an alert at 09:08 a.m. over a shooting incident at a lower secondary school with some 800 pupils in the city of Vantaa, just outside the capital, Helsinki. The Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat said the suspect was caught in the Helsinki area later Tuesday. No other details were immediately available. 5-4
