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A 12-year-old student has opened fire at a secondary school in southern Finland, killing one and seriously wounded two other students. Police said the suspect was later arrested. Heavily armed police cordoned off the lower secondary school, with some 800 students, in the city of Vantaa, just outside the capital, Helsinki, on Tuesday morning. Police said both the suspect and the victims were 12 years old. The suspect was arrested in the Helsinki area later Tuesday with a handgun in his possession. Police told a news conference that one of the wounded had died. The other two were seriously wounded. Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo posted on X that he was “deeply shocked” over the shooting.