Many feared dead in Finnish school shooting.

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Gunman arrested after 'many killed' in Finnish school shooting

Several people are feared dead after a man went on a shooting rampage at a college in southern Finland this morning.

Police have said the gunman, a 20-year-old student at the school in the southwestern town of Kauhajoki, has been disarmed and arrested.

Local media are reporting that 'many people' have been killed. Finnish television channel YLE said a teacher witnessed at least 10 people being shot.

There have been reports of a fire at the school and a girl covered in blood escaping from the building.

Around 200 pupils at the trade school were evacuated.

"We expect many people have been injured," said a police spokesman.

The level of gun ownership in Finland is among the highest in the world.

In November 2007, a Finnish high school student shot dead eight people before killing himself at Jokela, 40 miles north of Helsinki.

That incident at Jokela, 35 miles from Helsinki, triggered a series of threats against schools in Finland and its Nordic neighbours.

The killer, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen, was a social outcast who was bullied.

He chose his victims at random after posting plans for the attack with a legally-owned .22 automatic pistol on YouTube. The dead included the school's headmistress and nurse.

The incident led to a re-assessment of Finland's laws on gun ownership. The country was unaccustomed to deadly shootings although it has a high rate of gun ownership.
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Update.

'Nine dead' in Finland school shooting


An undated aerial view of the school where a
shooting took place in Kauhajoki,
Finland, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008

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Finland school gunman was questioned before attack