School shooting - Kauhajoki, Finland
Posted by: Neofytos
N 62° 25.761 E 022° 10.845
34V E 560969 N 6922568
Kauhajoki School shooting tragedia at 2008
Waymark Code: WMACXC
Location: Finland
Date Posted: 12/28/2010
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The Kauhajoki school shooting was a school shooting that occurred on 23 September 2008, at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Kauhajoki, a city in Western Finland. The gunman, 22-year-old culinary arts student Matti Juhani Saari, shot and fatally injured ten people with a semi-automatic pistol, before shooting himself in the head. He died a few hours later in Tampere University Hospital One woman was injured but was in a stable condition.
Date of crime: 09/23/2008
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