Radio | News week in plain Finnish | Saturday 6 April 2024

The topic of the news week this time is a school shooting. There was a school shooting in Vantaa on Tuesday, where 1 child died and 2 children were injured. Now we will tell you more about the shooting incident in Vantaa and previous school shootings in Finland.

School shooting in Vantaa

The police were quickly on the scene when there was a shooting at the school in Vantaa. Photo: Silja Viitala / Yle

The school shooting happened at Viertola school in Vantaa. The school’s 12-year-old student came to school with a gun on Tuesday.

The boy shot other students. 1 boy died and 2 girls were injured. They were all 12 years old.

The police caught the shooter. The shooter said that he had been bullied at school.

The shooter will not be punished because he is a child under the age of 15.

Previous school shootings

9 people died in the shooting at the Jokela school center in 2007.

There have been serious school shootings in Finland before. There are sad cases that Finns don’t forget.

There was a school shooting in Rauma in 1989. Then a 14-year-old boy killed 2 schoolmates with a firearm.

There was a shooting incident at the Jokela school center in Tuusula in 2007. An 18-year-old high school boy killed 8 people and shot himself.

The shooting incident at Kauhajoki University of Applied Sciences was in 2008. A 22-year-old male student of the University of Applied Sciences shot 10 people and finally also himself.

In these cases, the shooters were older than the 12-year-old shooter in Vantaa. However, all shooters felt that they were bullied at school.

Preventing school shootings

Police investigate and prevent school shootings. Photo: Silja Viitala / Yle

Police trying to prevent school shootings. The police are investigating threats made against schools, for example on social media.

Often the police go to a school that has been threatened. Police say this is how it has prevented school shootings.

Some schools also train for dangerous situations. Students learn, for example, how to take shelter in a dangerous situation.

Repeat

The topic of the news week was the school shooting in Vantaa. Let’s repeat the most important things.

1 child died and 2 children were injured in a school shooting in Vantaa. The shooter was only 12 years old.

There have been serious shootings in schools in the past as well.

The police do a lot of work to prevent school shootings.

Some schools also practice what to do in dangerous situations.

This was Uutisviikko in plain Finnish, see you again. Goodbye!