Twelve-year-old arrested after fatal school shooting in Finland
A young student fatally shot a 12-year-old and wounded two others at a school in Finland on Tuesday, police said, a rare act of violence by a child in a country that changed its gun laws after previous school shootings, but where firearm ownership remains widespread.Police said they arrested a suspect, also 12 years old, who had a gun, about an hour after arriving at the Viertola school in the town of Vantaa, about 10 miles north of Helsinki.“The Vantaa shooting incident is deeply distressing,” Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said this on X.Finland tightened its gun laws after two school shootings, in 2007 and 2008, in which 20 people, including the perpetrators, died. Those shootings inspired a heated debate over firearms legislation in a country of hunters and gun enthusiasts. A law introdu...