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Sat, 25 Oct, 2014 12:05:53 AM
FTimes-STT Report, Oct 25
The Utsjoki Sámi high, where a student was stabbed to death on Friday.Photo – Lehtikuva.
A student was stabbed to death at a high school in Utsjoki, northern Finland on Friday morning.
 
The high school student was stabbed when students were having a break in between lessons in the school’s lobby.

The student with serious injuries was airlifted for treatment. He was pronounced dead a few hours after the incident. Later it emerged that the victim had died at the scene of stabbing.
 
According to the police, nothing could have been done by the time the Norwegian rescue helicopter had arrived.
 
Norwegian rescue helicopter pick the victim after the attack on Friday. Photo – Lehtikuva.
The suspect was detained by the police shortly after the incident and will be arraigned before the court on Monday.

According to earlier reports, the suspect in the past had allegedly threatened a teacher with a knife. The teacher, however, managed to escape.
 
According to the police, the suspect is an adult student of around 30 years and hails from another place.

Both the suspect and the victim were known to each other and lived in the high school dormitory. The suspect is reported to have been evicted from the dormitory.

According to the information gathered by news agency STT, parents of students had been complaining for some time calling for the suspect to be separated from other students.
 
The students are said to have been afraid of the suspect.
 
The suspect is also said to have been ordered out of a Sami village on Thursday for intoxication.

The suspect did not resist arrest, said the police.
 
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