Bomb in Finnish shopping centre - 7 dead and ~80 injured

[RGBVideo]

i know im ignorant of finnish politics and splinter groups but who in finland would want to do such a thing?

Mannekommarisivarihomonallet?

To be serious, I have no idea at all.
Previous speculations we're that an invididual gas canister could've caused a chain
reaction near the gas cylinders of the mall. Seems like the mall doesn't have gas cylinders.

Police and politicians are now saying that all marks are now indicating that it was a bomb.

Hmmfh. :|

[Stefu]

I have no idea who could have committed the act. My guess is that it's a lone nut, acting on no other grounds than his own psychopathy.

[Pekka]

I bet my money on a lonely nut too.
It's very hard to establish any other believable motive for such attack. In few hours the cops are giving more info.

[Eli]

Who will want to blow stuff up in Finland?

[RGBVideo]

Behold the mini-map... Finland is part of the Skåne!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38331000/gif/_38331571_finland_vantaa_150map.gif

Shamelessly ripped from Iltalehti:

http://www.iltalehti.fi/2002/10/11/20021012_uuVantaa-4.jpg

[Meticulous Man]

Eli: some lone nut

Tuomerehu: that explosion must have been quite powerful since the whole Vantaa seems to have been relocated to Tavastia

[Eli]

Eli: some lone nut

Time will tell.

[Pekka]

Seems more like a lone nut now. They said it was a 'nail bomb'. Poweful bomb with nails and stuff flying wild in the air. Doesn't sound like a terrorist. But more like a crazy person who had some serious problems.

[Pekka]

Sorry, it was not a nail bomb, it was built in a simular way. I don't know what materials they used in it to fly around hurting people.

[Eli]

Originally posted by Pekka
Seems more like a lone nut now. They said it was a 'nail bomb'. Poweful bomb with nails and stuff flying wild in the air. Doesn't sound like a terrorist. But more like a crazy person who had some serious problems.

Most of the bombs blown up by suicide bombers in Israel were filled with nails and small metall balls.

Whoever did this wanted to cause as much injuries and deaths as possible.

[Eli]

Originally posted by Pekka
Sorry, it was not a nail bomb, it was built in a simular way. I don't know what materials they used in it to fly around hurting people.

Well, decide already.

Inside the bomb, were there small objects designed to maximize the damage caused by the bomb or not?

[RGBVideo]

Tell me your source while you're at it.

[Pekka]

Yeah, I mean a nail bomb, but not including nails. They were filled with.. what you call the munition for shotguns.. those 'balls' anyway. Nasty one.

[RGBVideo]

Tuomerehu: that explosion must have been quite powerful since the whole Vantaa seems to have been relocated to Tavastia

Old joke.
Watch we're BBC has placen Finland on the Europe map, and you'll see a new one.

[Stefu]

Possibility: lone environmentalist nut? I mean, environmentalist nut could be seen to have *some* slight motive of bombing a shopping mall, rampant consumerism and all that...