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Mourners gathered outside a southern Finland school Wednesday, a day after a 12-year-old student was accused of <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime/homicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fatally shooting</a> a boy and seriously wounding two girls all the same age with a handgun. The suspect, a sixth grader who attended the school, was apprehended less than an hour later.The attack shocked the Nordic nation, where Finnish blue-and-white flags were hoisted at half-staff and scores of people including parents, teachers and fellow students laid flowers and lit candles in the snowy landscape near the school building where the shooting occurred.The <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/europe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Finnish government</a> 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.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/finland-school-shooting-leaves-multiple-wounded-suspect-arrested" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FINLAND SCHOOL SHOOTING LEAVES MULTIPLE WOUNDED, SUSPECT ARRESTED</a>Police said one of the wounded girls has a dual Finland-Kosovo citizenship. The shooter and the victims were all classmates.In a statement on Wednesday, police said they have established a preliminary motive for the killing, which was carried out with "a revolver-like handgun," but said the investigation was ongoing. Finnish public broadcaster YLE said the suspect had allegedly been bullied at school.On Tuesday, heavily armed police cordoned off the Viertola school, an 800-student secondary school in the city of Vantaa, just outside Helsinki.Police said the deceased boy died instantly after being shot. The suspect was detained in the Helsinki area less than an hour after the shooting, with a handgun in his possession. The gun was licensed to a relative of the suspect who was not immediately identified. Police said he admitted to the shooting in an initial police hearing.The minimum age of criminal liability in Finland is 15 years, which means the suspect cannot be formally arrested. A suspect younger than 15 can only be questioned by the police before they are handed over to child welfare authorities.Finland has witnessed two major <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deadly school shootings</a> in 2007 and 2008. In their wake, the country tightened its gun laws, raising the minimum age for firearms ownership and giving police greater powers to perform background checks on individuals applying for a gun license.The nation of 5.6 million has more than 1.5 million licensed firearms, and about 430,000 license holders, according to the Finnish Interior Ministry. Hunting and gun-ownership are deeply rooted traditions in this sparsely-populated northern European country, where target practice is also a widespread hobby.

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title: Finnish government calls for nationwide day of mourning after a 12-year-old
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content: Mourners gathered outside a southern Finland school Wednesday, a day after
 a 12-year-old student was accused of <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime/homicide"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">fatally shooting</a> a boy and seriously wounding
 two girls all the same age with a handgun. The suspect, a sixth grader who attended
 the school, was apprehended less than an hour later.The attack shocked the
 Nordic nation, where Finnish blue-and-white flags were hoisted at half-staff and
 scores of people including parents, teachers and fellow students laid flowers and
 lit candles in the snowy landscape near the school building where the shooting occurred.The
 <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/europe" target="_blank"
 rel="noopener">Finnish government</a> 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.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/finland-school-shooting-leaves-multiple-wounded-suspect-arrested"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">FINLAND SCHOOL SHOOTING LEAVES MULTIPLE WOUNDED,
 SUSPECT ARRESTED</a>Police said one of the wounded girls has a dual
 Finland-Kosovo citizenship. The shooter and the victims were all classmates.In
 a statement on Wednesday, police said they have established a preliminary motive
 for the killing, which was carried out with "a revolver-like handgun," but said
 the investigation was ongoing. Finnish public broadcaster YLE said the suspect had
 allegedly been bullied at school.On Tuesday, heavily armed police cordoned
 off the Viertola school, an 800-student secondary school in the city of Vantaa,
 just outside Helsinki.Police said the deceased boy died instantly after being
 shot. The suspect was detained in the Helsinki area less than an hour after the
 shooting, with a handgun in his possession. The gun was licensed to a relative of
 the suspect who was not immediately identified. Police said he admitted to the shooting
 in an initial police hearing.The minimum age of criminal liability in Finland
 is 15 years, which means the suspect cannot be formally arrested. A suspect younger
 than 15 can only be questioned by the police before they are handed over to child
 welfare authorities.Finland has witnessed two major <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">deadly school shootings</a> in 2007 and 2008. In
 their wake, the country tightened its gun laws, raising the minimum age for firearms
 ownership and giving police greater powers to perform background checks on individuals
 applying for a gun license.The nation of 5.6 million has more than 1.5 million
 licensed firearms, and about 430,000 license holders, according to the Finnish Interior
 Ministry. Hunting and gun-ownership are deeply rooted traditions in this sparsely-populated
 northern European country, where target practice is also a widespread hobby.
summary: Finland has declared Wednesday to be a nationwide day of mourning after a
 12-year-old was accused of killing one student and severely injuring two others
 at secondary school on Tuesday.
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