On 23 September 2008 , a school shooting at a vocational college in the city left 11 dead , including the gunman , and another woman wounded . The incident was the second school shooting in less than a year in Finland , the other being the Jokela school shooting in November 2007 , in which nine people including the gunman died . Before that , only one other school shooting had taken place in the country 's history , in Rauma in 1989 , leaving two people dead
Jokela school shooting
Jokela school shooting
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