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Show World&Hation Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008 Page 13 Gunman kills 10 at school in Finland, then shoots self KAUHAJOKI, Finland (AP) - A masked gunman whose violent YouTube postings prompted police to question him just a day earlier opened fire Tuesday at his trade school in Finland, killing 10 people and burning some of their bodies before k fatally shooting himself in the head. Witnesses said panic broke out as the gunman, dressed in black and carrying a large bag, started firing in a classroom during an exam. The shootings began just before 11 a.m. as about 150 students were at the Kauhajoki School of Hospitality, 180 miles northwest of Helsinki. "I heard several dozen rounds of shots, in other words it was an automatic pistol," school janitor Jukka Forsbergtold Finnish broadcaster YLE. "I saw some female students who were wailing and moaning and one managed to escape out the back door." Police had questioned the gunman on Monday about YouTube postings in which he is seen firing a handgun, but he was released because there was no legal reason to hold him, Interior Minister Anne Holmlundsaid. RED CROSS W O R K E R S take away a shocked student at the Kauhajoki School of "The detective who handled the case Hospitality, in Kauhajoki, western Finland, on Tuesday Sept. 23. AP photo did not think that the circumstances Were such that they required a confisca"He was just a regular and calm guy. posted violent clips on YouTube prior to tion of the weapon or a withdrawal of the Nothing outstanding. He had lots of the massacres, both were fascinated by ' license," Holmlund said. friends. Nothing that would have given an the 1999 Columbine school shootings in Police spokesman Jari Neulaniemi said Colorado, both attacked their own schools idea that something like this would hapthe attacker walked into the school armed and both died after shooting themselves pen," student Susanna Keranen told an with a .22-caliber pistol and carrying AP television crew outside the school. in the head. explosives. He killed 10 people, burnThe gunman was taken to a hospital The ruling center-right government r ing some of them beyond recognition, in Tampere, about two hours away, along held an emergency meeting Tuesday, Neulaniemi said. His bag apparently conwith a female victim he had shot in the and some ministers planned to go to tained the explosives. head. The gunman later died, according Kauhajoki (pronounced COW-ha-yer-key) Neulaniemi said the gunman left two to hospital's medical director. - a town of 14,000 - on Wednesday. ihandwritten messages at the school dorThe female victim's condition was not "We have experienced a tragic day," mitory saying he had planned the attack immediately clear. Police said two people Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said as i since 2002 and that he hated the human were wounded, in addition to the 10 viche expressed condolences to the families race. He said the attacker started several tims and dead shooter. of the victims and declared Wednesday a fires using "petrol bombs or Molotov day of mourning. Finnish media identified the gunman ; cocktails." as Matti Juhani Saari, a 22-year-old stuPolice have not released the names or It was Finland's second school massadent at the school, which offers courses ages of the victims. The school says most ' ere in less than a year and the two attacks in catering, tourism, nursing and home of its students are between 18 to 25 years had eerie similarities. Both gunmen economics. old, with some older. Georgia killer gets execution reprieve in nick of time ATLANTA (AP)-The U.S. Supreme Court gave a reprieve to a Georgia inmate less than two hours before his scheduled execution Tuesday for the 1989 slaying of an off-duty police officer. Supporters of 39-year-old Troy Davis have called for a new trial as seven of the nine witnesses who helped put him on death row recanted their testimony. Protesters had arrived by the busload to protest the execution, carrying signs with slogans like "Justice for Troy Davis" and wearing blue T-shirts emblazoned with "I am Troy Davis." A crowd of about 50 erupted in cheers when the stay, granted around 5:20 p.m., was announced. Troy Davis spoke to the crowd by phone, sounding upbeat and optimistic. 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