Three pupils injured in Finnish school attack, police say

Student assaulted by fellow student; emergency services on the scene

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Three pupils injured in Finnish school attack

Three pupils were injured in an attack at a school in southern Finland on Tuesday and a fellow student suspected of carrying out the assault has been apprehended,…

At least three students from a school in the town of Pirkkala, in southern Finland, were injured on Tuesday when they were attacked by a partner with a knife, the police reported in a statement. The officers arrested the alleged attacker, also a student of the Vähäjärvi school, shortly after receiving the first emergency call. The three victims were injured, although “at this time, their lives are not in danger”, according to the police statemen…

Three female students from a school in southern Finland were injured in a multiple stabbing that could have been specifically directed against girls, as the alleged 16-year-old would have confessed, in a message published before the attack was perpetrated. The incident took place in a primary and secondary school in Tampere, where the first warnings began to emerge shortly before 10.45 a.m. A quarter of an hour later, the police arrived in the a…

Near the Finnish city of Tampere, a student is said to have stabbed people. The background is unclear. However, the media report on a manifesto.