Finland school gunman was bullied

Helsinki, Finland: The teenager who killed eight people in a high school shooting in Finland was a social outcast who was bullied in school, a senior police official said Thursday.

“You can say that the motive is still open,” detective superintendent Tero Haapala told The Associated Press.

“But the explanation can be found mainly in his Web writings and his social behaviour.” Police named the killer as Pekka Eric Auvinen

3 killed in Finland school shooting

HELSINKI, Finland: At least three people have been killed today in a school shooting in southern Finland, the Ilta Sanomat newspaper reported on its website. Police confirmed there was a shooting at a school in Tuusula, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of the capital, Helsinki, but declined to give details.