The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora of Kosovo has announced that a girl, an Albanian from Kosovo, is among the injured in the attack that took place in the morning at a school in Finland.

The Ministry has said through a post on Facebook that the Embassy of the Republic of Kosovo in Stockholm is in constant contact with the girl’s family members.

As a result of the attack on the Viertola school in the city of Vanta in Finland, one child died and two others were seriously injured.

According to police officials, the three victims are 12 years old, just like the suspect, who initially ran away, but was then detained by the authorities.

Parents have told Finnish media that the shooting took place in a classroom at Viertola School in Vantaa, north of the capital Helsinki.

The police said they reached the school within nine minutes.

The school has about 800 students from grades one to nine, as well as a staff of 90 people, according to local authorities.

Finland has faced such incidents in the past as well.

In 2007, Pekka-Eric Auvinen killed seven students, the school nurse, the principal and himself with a handgun at Jokela High School, near Helsinki.

A year later, in 2008, Matti Saari, another student, shot at a vocational school in northwestern Finland. He killed nine students, a member of the school staff and then himself.

Finland has tightened the law on gun ownership in 2010. It has also changed the legal age for gun ownership, from 18 to 20 years old.