The Ministry of the Interior has ordered all state offices and institutions to lower flags to half staff and issued a general recommendation for all flags to be flown at half staff for the day.
Flags were lowered at 8 AM local time Wednesday and are to be flown at half staff until sundown.
On Wednesday 11 people were killed and three injured by a student who opened fire with a pistol at the Kauhajoki School of Hospitality, a vocational school in western Finland. The 22 year-old assailant shot nine fellow students and one teacher before turning his pistol on himself. He died later in the day at Tampere University Hospital.
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