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2 April – Viertola school shooting; Three 12-year old children are shot, one of them fatally, in a school shooting in Vantaa. The suspect, who is also a 12-year old, is arrested.[4]
13–14 April – Evacuations are ordered in parts of Northern Ostrobothnia due to flooding caused by the spring thaw.[5]
12 July – The Eduskunta votes 167-31 to approve a bill allowing the Finnish Border Guard to turn away third-country migrants trying to enter from Russia and reject their asylum applications on national security grounds.[8] The bill is signed into law by President Alexander Stubb on 16 July.[9]
18 November – A section of the C-Lion1 submarine communications cable running under the Baltic Sea between Finland and Germany is cut off the Swedish coast in what German authorities suspect as an act of sabotage.[13]
2 December – Two sections of a submarine communications cable running under the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden are cut in what Swedish authorities suspect as an act of sabotage, affecting about 6,000 households in Finland.[16]
19 December – A bus and a minivan carrying tourists collides near Rovaniemi, killing two people.[17]
25 December – The submarine Estlink-2 power cable running under the Gulf of Finland between Finland and Estonia is cut, leading to suspicions that a vessel linked to Russia is responsible.[18]
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