One killed, two injured by 12-year-old Finnish school shooter

Helsinki, Finland:A 12 year old opened fire Tuesday at a school north of the Finnish capital Helsinki, killing a fellow student and seriously injuring...

Helsinki, Finland: A 12-year-old opened fire Tuesday at a school north of the Finnish capital Helsinki, killing a fellow student and seriously injuring two others before being taken into custody, police said.

The Viertola school in Vantaa, Finland's fourth-largest city, has around 90 staff and 800 pupils in grades one to nine, or aged seven to 15.

"Today, after 9:00 am, a shooting incident took place at a school... in which a sixth grader, a student of the school, died," Ilkka Koskimaki, chief of the Eastern Uusimaa police department, told a press conference, adding that two others were "seriously injured".

Police had earlier said that both the suspect and the injured were 12 years old. They have opened an investigation into murder and attempted murder.

The child who was killed died at the scene, and the suspect had already left the school by the time police arrived.