A student at a school in Finland has killed at least eight people in a shooting rampage hours after a video predicting a massacre was posted on YouTube. Five boys, two girls and the female school principal were killed when Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, opened fire at the Jokela High school in Tuusula municipality, north of Helsinki. He tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head but survived and is being treated in hospital. In a series of YouTube posting, he refers to his gun as "Catherine" and says he "loves her". The YouTube video, set to heavy rock music, opens with what appears to be a photo of the school. The photo then fragments to reveal a red-tinted image of a man pointing a gun at the camera. It is entitled "Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007" and was posted by a user called Sturmgeist89. All of the videos have been removed by YouTube.http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1291894,00.html
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