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Sept. 23, 2008: Matti Saari, 22, walks into a vocational college in Kauhajoki, Finland, and opens fire, killing 10 people and burning their bodies with firebombs before shooting himself fatally in the head.
Some of the Deadliest Mass Shootings Around the World The Associated Press 2011
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On Sept. 23, 2008, a culinary student named Matti Juhani Saari walked into a vocational college in Kauhajoki, Finland, drew a semi-automatic pistol, and killed 10 people before taking his own life.
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Last week, a Finnish government commission set up to investigate the shooting in Kauhajoki proposed a ban on semi-automatic handguns.
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Witnesses say that Saari entered a classroom at around 9: 15 a.m. on Tuesday in the Kauhajoki School of Hospitality in the remote western town of Kauhajoki and began shooting while students were taking a test.
Matti Juhani Saari, Finland School Shooter Kills Nine and Self 2008
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Oliver Morin/Agence France-Press -- Getty Images SCHOOL SHOOTING: Students lighted candles in the evening at a vocational high school in Kauhajoki, Finland, Tuesday.
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Student Matti Saari opened fire in a vocational school in Kauhajoki in northwest Finland, killing nine other students and one male staff member before killing himself.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Eleven people, including the 22-year-old gunman, die in a massacre at a training school at Kauhajoki, Finland - March 11, 2009 - GERMANY
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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The recommendation came in a report on an attack in September 2008, when a 22-year-old gunman killed nine fellow students and a teacher before shooting himself at a vocational high school in Kauhajoki, western Finland.
The Seattle Times 2010
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The report said that the gunman in Kauhajoki "used a self-loading or semiautomatic firearm, which was small-caliber but still capable of inflicting serious damage" and recommended that
The Seattle Times 2010
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The recommendation came in a report on an attack in September 2008, when a 22-year-old gunman killed nine fellow students and a teacher before shooting himself at a vocational high school in Kauhajoki, western Finland.
The Seattle Times 2010
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