{"id":116740,"date":"2025-05-20T09:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/116740\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T09:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:47:10","slug":"school-knife-rampage-leaves-at-least-three-injured-in-finland-as-suspect-16-who-wrote-manifesto-about-stabbing-girls-is-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/116740\/","title":{"rendered":"School knife rampage leaves at least three injured in Finland as suspect, 16, &#8216;who wrote manifesto about stabbing girls&#8217; is arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>This story is developing, more to follow\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-2921\/perkin-amalaraj.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PERKIN AMALARAJ<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  04:39 EDT, 20 May 2025   |  Updated:  05:43 EDT, 20 May 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">At least three people have been injured in an act of violence at a Finnish school, the police said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that the perpetrator had been apprehended.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Police in the city of Pirkkala received reports of violence from the\u00a0V\u00e4h\u00e4j\u00e4rvi School at 10.42am local time, and sent armed officers to deal with the incident, reportedly a knife attack that took place during a school break.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Local newspaper Iltalehti has reported that the alleged perpetrator, a 16-year-old boy who has been planning the attack for six months, sent a manifesto to their offices in which he said he intended to stab girls at the school before surrendering to cops.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Video footage apparently taken from inside the school showed at least five police cars and vans rushing to the school, which teaches around 1,500 students.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Cops are still at the school, and are continuing their investigation. They are reportedly working to remove the students from the school&#8217;s grounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Local media reported that a Rapid Response Unit was seen rushing to the school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Officials said that those who were hurt did not suffer life-threatening injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A mother of a child who attends the school told local media that its leadership team sent out a &#8216;red alert&#8217; and ordered students to go to their classrooms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-c89c7409e66cefc\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/98560107-14730473-Police_in_the_city_of_Pirkkala_received_reports_of_violence_from-a-49_174773084258.jpeg\" height=\"356\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Police in the city of Pirkkala received reports of violence from the V\u00e4h\u00e4j\u00e4rvi School (pictured) at 10.42am local time\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Police in the city of Pirkkala received reports of violence from the V\u00e4h\u00e4j\u00e4rvi School (pictured) at 10.42am local time<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">They also appear to have had their phones either taken from them or banned, as communication with the children was not possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;We are completely clueless. I assume our child is not among the victims because we have not been targeted. It&#8217;s terrible,&#8217; the mother told Aamulehti.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Local police are set to release more details of the incident at 5pm local time at the Tampere Central Police Station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font mol-style-italic\">More to follow.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        School knife rampage leaves at least three injured in Finland as suspect, 16, &#8216;who wrote manifesto about stabbing girls&#8217; is arrested<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story is developing, more to follow\u00a0 By PERKIN AMALARAJ Published: 04:39 EDT, 20 May 2025 | Updated:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,769,12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-116740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-finland","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114539531089212535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}