Rooftop gunman kills two in Finland
Police arrest 18-year-old man suspected on firing on civilians from a rooptop
Helsinki: A gunman opened fire from a rooftop in a Finnish town centre on Saturday, killing two people and wounding several others, police said.
An 18-year-old man wearing camouflage clothing was arrested after the shooting in Hyvinkaa, a small town north of the capital Helsinki.
The motive for the shooting was unclear. It followed a series of shooting sprees in Finland in recent years and came less than a year after anti-immigrant gunman Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in a rampage in neighbouring Norway.
The suspect had no criminal background and police said he likely acted alone.
Police could not comment on whether he knew his victims. Both of the dead were 18-years old. One was male and one female. Seven others were wounded. One, a policewoman, was in critical condition.
Media reports said some of the victims, including one of the dead, were members of a Finnish baseball team, Hyvinkaan Tahko, which had won a game on Friday.
