Savo Vocational College

Campus located in Presidentinkatu 1, Kuopio.

Savo Vocational College is a vocational school run by the Savo Consortium for Education, operating at various campuses in the municipalities of Kuopio, Iisalmi, Varkaus and Siilinjärvi in Finland. In 2015, the vocational school had 5721 students.^[1]

On 1 October 2019, a campus in Kuopio was attacked by a perpetrator armed with a sword, leaving one dead and ten injured.^[2] The assailant was shot twice by the police and taken into intensive care soon after.^[3]

References[]

^ "Toimintakertomus ja tilinpäätös 2015" (PDF) (in Finnish). Savo Consortium for Education. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
^ "At least one dead, 10 injured in stabbing at Finnish school complex" (in Finnish). CNN. 1 October 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
^ "Police: Sabre-wielding Kuopio suspect a Finnish student with no criminal record" (in Finnish). Yle. 1 October 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019.

External links[]

Website of Savo Vocational School

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[1] "Toimintakertomus ja tilinpäätös 2015" (PDF) (in Finnish). Savo Consortium for Education. Retrieved 2 October 2019.

[2] "At least one dead, 10 injured in stabbing at Finnish school complex" (in Finnish). CNN. 1 October 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019.

[3] "Police: Sabre-wielding Kuopio suspect a Finnish student with no criminal record" (in Finnish). Yle. 1 October 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019.

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