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Faces Of Fear

  • November 8th, 2007
  • Posted by EUEditor

finland.jpgA teenage gunman who killed seven people at a high school in Finland (7.11.07) has died in hospital, after shooting himself at the scene of the crime.

News reports in Finland said the eighteen year-old shot dead the Principal of his school at Tuusula, fifty kilometers North of Helsinki, then randomly fired on others – leaving seven dead and at least ten others hurt.

He was said to have had an interest in Hitler and Stalin, and posted video clips on You Tube, warning of an attack on the school and showing himself firing a pistol

Picture: Columbine’s fear comes to EU; students at Tuusula; BBC