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The motive for a school shooting in Finland that left a 12-year-old boy dead was bullying, Finnish police said in a statement. The suspected attacker, also aged 12, was detained and taken into custody after the attack at Viertola school in Vantaa, on the outskirts of Helsinki on Tuesday. “The suspect has said during interrogations that he was the target of bullying, and this information has also been confirmed in the preliminary investigation by the police,” a statement said. “The suspect had transferred to the Viertola school at the beginning of this year”, it noted. The shooter and the victi…

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