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Finland gunman 'kills students'

September 23 2008 at 11:52 AM
  (Login tezelturk)
South Korea

Another EU country:

Rest in peace for the dead

Several people are feared dead, with more injured, after a man opened fire at a college in western Finland.

Police said the gunman, thought to be a 22-year-old student, was then disarmed, but local media say he shot himself.

He was carrying an automatic weapon and wearing a ski mask when he entered the college in Kauhajoki, reports said.

Last November a student shot dead eight people at a school in Tuusula. Gun ownership in Finland is among the highest in the world.

Media reports said the shootings began Tuesday just before 1100 local time (0800 GMT), when some 200 students were in the building.

Ski mask

A BBC correspondent in Finland said a gunman dressed in black was seen at the school, apparently carrying an automatic weapon.

A man with a ski mask was seen entering the building with a large bag, national broadcaster YLE reported. Shots were fired soon afterwards.

Police ordered an evacuation and called for reinforcements, with local reports saying the country's heavy weapons squad was heading to Kauhajoki.

The gunman remained at large within the college grounds for some time before police apparently restrained and disarmed him.

"I just heard from the police radio that the shooter has been caught. He no longer has a gun," a police spokesman told the AFP news agency.

But hospital sources and the mayor of the town were later quoted as saying the attacker had turned his gun on himself.

There were reports of a fire at the site and of at least one injured girl leaving the school covered in blood, our correspondent says.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7630969.stm

Rest in Peace George Stephanou


 
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nappyheadedHO
(Login beryoza)
Europa

Re: Finland gunman 'kills students'

September 23 2008, 12:29 PM 

RIP.Finland is such a nice and peaceful country,this is sad!

 
 

Armenia-Sacra
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Re: Finland gunman 'kills students'

September 23 2008, 12:52 PM 



    
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(Login tezelturk)
South Korea

Re: Finland gunman 'kills students'

September 23 2008, 3:13 PM 

rest in peace to everything which is now dead.

Rest in Peace George Stephanou


 
 

banner man
(Login moughoun)
Soldiers

Re: Finland gunman 'kills students'

September 23 2008, 3:40 PM 

Very sad, the Finn's I've known were solid people, tough....


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nappyheadedHO
(Login NorthernCyprus-Reloaded)

Re: Finland gunman 'kills students'

September 23 2008, 7:24 PM 

Rest in peace to the victims.

it just shows that Europe is slowly but surely becoming more and more
americanized. The guy even has videos on youtube where he in ENGLISH
proudly says " YOU WILL DIE NEXT ".

God bless america! And its flawless american way of life and
how it inspires us europeans.















TASTE FREEDOM CITIZENS!!!



TASTE DEMOCRACY YOU BLOOD-THIRSTY EVIL TERRORIST!
But HEY!! Anyone trying to restrict the Freedom on buying guns in America
is the true Terrorist!

Restricting peoples rights to buy weapons is TERRORISM!


    
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(Login NorthernCyprus-Reloaded)

Re: Finland gunman 'kills students'

September 23 2008, 7:42 PM 


 
 
kisemickcheeni
(Login kisemickcheeni)
Immortal Iran

Re: Finland gunman 'kills students'

September 24 2008, 12:55 AM 

Another developed western country. LOL

@NCR, I am sick of persons complaining at american stupidity hypocristy and bad treatments. Why dont we do something about it? Why dont you bomb them kill them all take some action instead of sitting on your backside complaining about it while watching only american movies, not dumping dollars because europeans are too faggot homosexual to make their own currency stronger than dollar by such huge margin that dollar collapses (even if it means reduced exports at first for eurozone), why dont you evict america from united nations passs sanctions against entire country? LOL

 
 

dalek
(Login dalek113)
Eagle Squadron(US)

Re: Finland gunman 'kills students'

September 24 2008, 5:16 AM 

Yeah, this is Americas fault!

Us Europeans?
You're not European, you're a Turk!

 
 

KAPPA
(Login Andartis)
Hellenic Hoplites

Re: Finland gunman 'kills students'

September 24 2008, 8:09 AM 

Now this is a Turk wannabe..

 
 
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