Another school shooting in Finland happening right now

Another school shooting in Finland happening right now

news.bbc.co.uk

Just breaking news here in Finland.
A commando masked man has opened fire in a school in central Finland. story continues...

(visit the link for the full news article)


Related News Links:
www.iltasanomat.fi


mod edit: fixed link

[edit on 2008/9/23 by Hellmutt]

another one in Finland

news.bbc.co.uk
(visit the link for the full news article)


mod edit: fixed link

[edit on 2008/9/23 by Hellmutt]

reply to post by finallianstallion


damn another one i just saw it on the news. i live in finland

Yeah Im from Finland too. I wonder when they start to make connections to the latest finnish school shooting and maybe to the Virginia Tech shooting.


[edit on 23-9-2008 by finallianstallion]

Getting a 404 on the news link in the first post.

[edit on 23-9-2008 by StarTraveller]

try this one...

news.bbc.co.uk...
and if the link does not work then it is in the mainpage of BBC

news.bbc.co.uk...




[edit on 23-9-2008 by finallianstallion]

Yeah shooting at a school.. bad news. I just caught a brief report about this on CNN.. Any Fins on ATS? Please fix the link in the thread.

local finish paper , original story

translation

to the best of our knowlege the incident started at around 11am and the situvation is still at hand,
with the information avalible the we know it is a male in his 20´s and the shooter is still in the building,
police has evacuated around 200 students, death toll might be many

the shootings at jokelas school come instantly in mind and this case might have simular youtube videos uploaded

the online video provider site youtube contains at the moment several suspicius videos where a male from kauhavajoki is at a shooting range, the last video update was made 5days ago

at the moment we dont know if the videos and the shooeter are related

[edit on 23-9-2008 by zerbot565]

There are clear connections between the youtube videos and profiles of the Pekka Eric Auvinen, the sick bastard behind the Jokela incident and the suspect in this latest incident.

Both feature nihilistic and facistic ideologies.

UPDATE:
AFP reports that the shooter has been caught. AFP claims that their reporter heard it from the police radio. (highly unlikely as Finnish police radio is hevily encrypted)

[edit on 23-9-2008 by northwolf]

3 dead so far...

[edit on 23-9-2008 by finallianstallion]

YLE NEWS (Finnish government owned):
Shooter is dead and emergency personel is entering the school

FOX and CNN both say "several dead including shooter who committed suicide"

WHY, WHY do they always wait and let the shooter commit suicide? Does Finland not have armed police? Here the US (since Columbine) most agencies train their officers to immediately engage an armed suspect and not wait for SWAT thus reducing the death toll in many cases.

[edit on 23-9-2008 by ChrisF231]

an other finish paper

translation

School shootings at kauhajoki

the shooter has been pinpointed to a class room awhile ago.
police confirm they ve been shoot at.

Pohjanmaan rescueservices firechief Ahti Yli-mannila tells Iltalehti that
police , firebrigade and medical personel are going inside the schoo.
acording to Yli-mannila the school is filled with smoke to some degree.

kauhajoen police tell us that the shooter is a student in his 20´s,
the situvation is still at large.

acording to the police there has been several shots fired in the school

-we have a serious situvation here, a large weapon is being used and fired repetedly,
firechief Yli-mannila told iltalehti slightly after the shootings began.

large scale accident alert

kauhajoen´s hospital has told iltalehti that no victims with physical damages has been brought to them yet and we keep a high alert ongoing

-til this minute we have only given shock and trauma patients relife

seinajoki central hospital is at large scale alert aswell

the speaker of the city of kauhajoki Lasse Hautala is on place and told iltalehti that he had seen a girl being carried to an abulance

the police will have a information brief at 13.00 at kauhajoki polie department, the case has been transfered to KRP who is handeling it at the moment.

From Yahoo's news website:

School Shooting: 'Several Dead'

reply to post by ChrisF231


Police in Finland is always armed (Glock 17s with Speer Gold Dots). But the local police departments are not very experienced in armed operations and most police officers newer have to use their guns in real situations. Also local PD probably had 2-4 officers at duty, you can't storm in when the back up is 75kms away.

several dead ,
several wounded

and the shooter is in the hands of medical personal wounded

there might be a bomb placed in the school

still waiting for the info brief on what they tells us

edit from info brief

from the info brief.

cannot confirm if more then 10 dead
cannot confim if more then 20 wounded

the shooter is hospitalised due to wounds and alive !!!

[edit on 23-9-2008 by zerbot565]

13:30 radio news brief

head and chest wounded student are being transfered tampere university hospital,
at least 2 serious head wounds.

the shooter is seriously wounded and still alive and being transferd to the same hospital

Tampere Univeristy Hospital has put down the high alert since no more patiens will be transfered there

fires at the school are still being faugth

still no clear info on how many wounded and killed



acording to eye witnesses the shootings started when a hooded fellow entered the school and started shooting



[edit on 23-9-2008 by zerbot565]



13:50 news brief

wounded are being transfered to hospitals in Vaasa , Seinajoki, Tampere

and from what we can conclued from thouse wounded and the state they are in one of the wounded is the shooter and is still alive.

[edit on 23-9-2008 by zerbot565]

Here is the latest:

YLE said a teacher witnessed at least 10 people being shot.



[edit on 23-9-2008 by StarTraveller]

yle.fi...

Here`s a link of the video of the alleged shooter with his Walther P22

LINK

floobs.com...