( CNN ) -- Ten people were killed Tuesday when a gunman rampaged through a Finnish college , police officials said . Officials say Matti Juhani Saari began firing in a classroom at the college before shooting himself . Over the course of 90 minutes , Saari fired a few shots at police , Finnish broadcaster YLE said . Jukka Forsberg , a maintenance worker at the school , told YLE that the gunman was wearing a ski mask and walked into the building with a large bag . About 150 students were on campus Kauhajoki city 's School of Hospitality in southwestern Finland . Forsberg said , `` I heard several dozen rounds of shots . In other words , it was an automatic pistol . I saw some female students who were wailing and moaning , and one managed to escape out the back door . '' Smoke billowed from a building on campus , but officials could not immediately say what caused the fire . Watch pictures from the scene » . Tapio Varmola , who was visiting the school at the time , told CNN he was in a building about two blocks away when the shootings occurred . After the shootings , he said , he heard students shouting . Police came about 10 minutes after they were called , Varmola said . `` It took two hours to get this situation ended , '' he said . Saari , 22 , died Tuesday afternoon from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at Tampere University Hospital , said medical director Matti Lehto . At least one other person suffered serious injuries in the shooting , he added . Police had interviewed and released Saari on Monday after he posted violent videos on YouTube , authorities said . As Saari did not directly threaten anyone in the videos , there were no grounds for further action , national police Commissioner Mikko Paatero told YLE . Authorities learned about the videos Friday but could not reach Saari until Monday , Paatero told YLE . Police also searched his home , YLE reported . Four videos of a man firing a pistol at a shooting range were posted by a `` Mr. Saari '' from Kauhajoki , where the college is based , according to his YouTube profile . The profile also included a video tribute to the Columbine High School shooters , Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold , at the top of the man 's favorites list . The videos were posted over a three-week period this month . None was posted in the last week . Watch more about the YouTube videos » . The account was suspended within hours of the shooting , which began about 11 a.m. local time ( 0800 GMT ) . MTV-3 's Foreign Editor Risto Puolimatka told CNN that Saari was also issued with a temporary gun license last month . It was the gunman 's first license , Puolimatka said . Finnish President Tarja Halonen expressed her condolences from the United Nations , where she is attending the annual General Assembly . She also commented on the YouTube videos . `` We , parents and elderly people , have a little bit of feeling about the Internet , '' she said at an impromptu TV interview . `` It 's like a strange planet for us . But it 's not so . It 's part of our world , so we have to step in . '' She praised efforts by police , who she said `` were already on board '' by interviewing Saari . Authorities hoped that was enough to take care of any threat , but `` now we see that it was not , '' she said . The school taught late teens and young adults , Jarkko Sipila of MTV 3 told CNN . `` It 's more or less like an agricultural or professional school where people teach how to make food or how to cook in big kitchen , in industrial kitchens , '' he said . Kauhajoki , with a population of about 15,000 , is about 290km ( 180 miles ) from the capital , Helsinki . The incident comes almost a year after another school shooting left nine people , including the gunman , dead in the Finnish town of Tuusala . Before that shooting , the gunman , 18-year-old student Pekka-Eric Auvinen , posted a video on YouTube titled `` Jokela High School Massacre 11/7/2007 , '' identifying the date and location of the attack . `` All these memories are being brought back and people are asking the question , 'Why again ? ' `` Sipila said . Finland enjoys a strong tradition of hunting and has a high proportion of gun ownership , with 2 million firearms owned in a nation of 5 million people .
Ten killed as gunman rampages through college in southwestern Finland . Suspected gunman dies in hospital after turning the gun on himself , officials said . Police say the shooter was a student , no motive established . Police probing videos posted on YouTube by alleged gunman .