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A shooting north of Helsinki left a boy dead and two girls wounded. A suspect aged 12 is in custody.

A child has died and two others have been seriously wounded in a shooting at a school in Finland carried out by a minor, police said.

Mourners gathered outside a southern Finland school Wednesday, a day after a 12-year-old student shot and killed a boy and seriously wounded two girls all the same age with a handgun. The Finnish government declared Wednesday a nationwide day of mourning, ordering all state agencies and institutions to lower the national flag to half-staff. Many private households across Finland joined in the commemoration.

Finnish police declared today that the 12-year-old boy suspected of shooting and killing a classmate while injuring two others had been the victim of bullying and this had motivated the act.

HELSINKI (AP) — A 12-year-old student suspected of fatally shooting a classmate and wounding two others in Finland told police that he was bullied at school…

Young suspect had only been a student at the school since the beginning of the year

Flags have been flying at half-mast across Finland after a child was killed and two others seriously wounded in a shooting at a school on Tuesday.

HELSINKI -- A 12-year-old student opened fire at a secondary school in southern Finland on Tuesday morning, killing one student and seriously wounding two others, police said. The suspect was later apprehended.

The motive for a school shooting in Finland that left a 12-year-old boy dead was bullying, police have said.

Two of the victims remain in hospital with serious injuries.