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One dead, 10 injured in sword attack at college in Finland: police

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One person was killed and 10 injured in an attack at a vocational college in eastern Finland on Tuesday, police said, as local media quoted witnesses as saying a young man with a sword had burst into a classroom.

A police van is seen in front of the Herman shopping centre where the Savo Vocational College is located in Kuopio, Finland, on October 1 2019.A man armed with a bladed weapon attacked students at a vocational college in eastern Finland on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring 10 more, police said.“The suspect was armed with some sort of bladed weapon,” a spokesperson for East Finland Police told AFP.

“While I was helping the teacher, I started hearing other shouts for help. Students were running away and into my garage,” Kokkonen told MTV News. Police have yet to confirm a motive for the attack, or whether the suspect is a student at the college. “Officers used firearms during the situation. Police have detained one perpetrator. The injured have been evacuated,” East Finland police said in a statement.In a tweet, Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne described the attack as"shocking and utterly reprehensible".

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