3 children wounded in a school shooting in Helsinki, police detain a suspect
Apr 2, 2024 | 1:11 AM
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.
The Associated Press