Deadly Finnish School Shooting

ANCHOR:
In Finland yesterday a student shot and killed ten people before turning the gun on himself. This is the country's second such attack in less than a year.

STORY:
The gunman has been identified as student 22-year-old Matti Juhani Saari.

Saari posted menacing videos of himself wielding a gun on the Internet in the run-up to the attack.

The school had 150 students and 40 teachers as of 2005.

The school's principal depicts how the drama unfolded.

[Tapio Varmala, School Principal]:
"I was myself at the school when it all started. Within 30 minutes we got quite a few of the students out. The school building is quite new, three floors. My prediction was that there was around 150 students there, but as I said, we got students out quite fast. Right now I am just trying to stay calm and keep the situation calm."

Many of the students at the post-secondary school are around 20 years old.

Finlands interior minister says that police were in contact with the gunman a day before the shooting. They were alerted to footage posted on the Web showing him
firing a handgun at a shooting range, but were unable to get in touch with him immediately.

The Internet connection revived memories of last year's deadly attack at Jokela high school, where a student killed six of his classmates, the school nurse and the principal after broadcasting his intent in a YouTube video.

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[backtobasicsman]

matti just snapped! thats all!

anyone off us could snap like that, if you got pushed far enough...

[miklu85]

suomi suree tapahtunutta :(

[95vg95]

@d0peb0y96 eeeh.. He was attending a university, taking a higher education. That's quite normal.

[MokomaSusi]

@MultiGmod123

Armeijan XA-180 lainassa.

[MultiGmod123]

Wut Suomella Erikoispoliisijoukkojen tankki?! 1:19

[EvisHP]

@Snazikk I live in Vaasa too ;D

[Snazikk]

That was pretty close to Vaasa O_O I Live in Vaasa.

[soogzonater]

@MrIKILLFASCISTS LOL

[jodesonata]

ei sais nauraa mut virnuilin tolle "Mädi Juvani Sari" :lle.

...nii kuka oli?



[saippuakissa]

I live near there.. :l

[d0peb0y96]

lol?

was he retard?..22 years at school? -.-