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HELSINKI, Finland — A teenager opened fire at a high school in southern Finland today, killing one person and wounding three others, a municipal official said.

The incident was Finland's first known school shooting.

Heidi Hagman, assistant to the municipality director in Tuusula, some 30 miles north of the capital, Helsinki, said an 18-year-old man opened fire inside the Jokela high school.

She said three others had been wounded and the shooter was still inside the school, which police surrounded.

NEW BAGHLAN, Afghanistan — The death toll from a suicide blast targeting a group of lawmakers and children rose to 60 today, the deadliest attack in Afghanistan since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.Hundreds of mourners gathered at a mosque near the site of the bombing in the town of New Baghlan, 95 miles north of Kabul, before moving to a simple hilltop graveyard to bury the dead.The attack happened Tuesday as the lawmakers were being greeted by children on a visit to a sugar factory in Afghanistan's normally peaceful north."My son was supposed to finish school this year, but yesterday I had to peel off his blood-soaked clothes, and today I buried him," said an elderly man who broke down in tears on top of a grave site.The Ministry of Education confirmed that at least 18 schoolchildren had been killed.

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