Child killed and two others injured in Finland school shooting

Police told a news conference that one of the wounded students had died

Police officers at the scene of Viertola comprehensive school, in Vantaa, Finland where three were wounded in a shooting (Markku Ulander/Lehtikuva via AP)

A 12-year-old student has opened fire at a secondary school in southern Finland, killing one student and seriously wounding two others, police said.

Heavily armed police cordoned off the lower secondary school, with some 800 students, in the city of Vantaa, just outside the capital Helsinki after receiving a call about a shooting incident at 9.08am local time.