Shooter Matti Juhani Saari killed eight women, two men,himself
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- A 22-year-old gunman who opened fire at a trade school in Finland murdered eight women and two men. The National Bureau of Investigation said all the women were students, while one of the men was a teacher and the other a student, the Associated Press reported. The bureau said Matti Juhani Saari also wounded an additional female student before shooting himself in the head. Investigators said the gunman set fires in the school which seriously burned the victims of yesterday's massacre. Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said an inquiry had been opened into why police failed to prevent the massacre even though they had questioned Saari 24 hours before it happened. "There is an investigation regarding the last few days before the shooting," Mr Vanhanen said. He did not specify who was conducting the investigation. The Prime Minister was speaking during a visit to Kauhajoki, the small town in southwestern Finland where the massacre took place. Just hours after the massacre Finland's Interior Minister Anne Holmlund revealed that police had questioned Saari on Monday about a video posted on YouTube that showed him shooting his weapon at a firing range, but police had not deemed him enough of a threat to withdraw his gun licence. "It appears the police reacted immediately and met this young man but we don't know what information they had and the reason why his licence was not withdrawn," Mr Vanhanen said. He reiterated comments made yesterday that Finland planned to strengthen its gun control laws after the country's second school shooting in less than a year. "We will take a decision regarding a new law in a few months. We have had a very long tradition" of gun ownership, he said. Finland has one of the world's highest gun ownership rates, ranking third behind the United States and Yemen according to a study last year. Mr Vanhanen said the country was in the process of implementing a new European Union directive it had previously contested preventing 15-year-olds from possessing guns. "Finland will raise (the age f
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