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Jokela
Jokela () is one of the three administrative centers in the municipalities of Finland, Finnish municipality Tuusula. It has a population of around 6,000 residents. The Jokela School Centre and the Jokela railway station serve the community. Many residents commute to the capital of Finland, Helsinki, which is about away. The Jokela Prison, opened in 1993, is also located in the village. History Early settlement Until the mid-19th century the area around Jokela was scarcely populated. The development of Jokela began with the opening of a railway line in 1862. In 1874 the railway station was built and the first brick factory was founded. Several other brick factories would later follow to meet the needs of the rapidly growing capital as well as a match factory next to Jokela manor. The industrial development increased population: in 1920 there were 570 inhabitants and by 1950 1,617. Rail crash On April 21, 1996 a Jokela rail accident, rail accident occurred where four people were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pekka-Eric Auvinen
The Jokela school shooting, also known as the Jokela High School massacre, occurred on 7 November 2007, at Jokela High School in the town of Jokela, Tuusula, Finland. The gunman, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen, entered the school that morning armed with a semi-automatic pistol. He killed eight people and wounded one before shooting himself in the head; twelve others were also injured by flying glass or by spraining their ankles during the ensuing chaos. Auvinen died later that evening in a Helsinki hospital. This was the second school shooting in the history of Finland. The Raumanmeri school shooting, previous incident occurred in 1989 at the Raumanmeri school in Rauma, Finland, Rauma, when a 14-year-old fatally shot two fellow students. Less than one year after the Jokela school massacre, the Kauhajoki school shooting occurred, which is thought to have been heavily inspired by Auvinen. Massacre At approximately 11:40, Pekka-Eric Auvinen entered Jokela High School's ground-floor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jokela Railway Station
Jokela () is one of the three administrative centers in the Finnish municipality Tuusula. It has a population of around 6,000 residents. The Jokela School Centre and the Jokela railway station serve the community. Many residents commute to the capital of Finland, Helsinki, which is about away. The Jokela Prison, opened in 1993, is also located in the village. History Early settlement Until the mid-19th century the area around Jokela was scarcely populated. The development of Jokela began with the opening of a railway line in 1862. In 1874 the railway station was built and the first brick factory was founded. Several other brick factories would later follow to meet the needs of the rapidly growing capital as well as a match factory next to Jokela manor. The industrial development increased population: in 1920 there were 570 inhabitants and by 1950 1,617. Rail crash On April 21, 1996 a rail accident occurred where four people were killed and 75 injured when express train P82 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jokela Prison
The Jokela Prison () is a prison located near the Jokela railway station in the Jokela village of Tuusula, Finland, opened in 1993. The prison is part of Southern Finland's criminal sanctions area maintained by the Criminal Sanctions Agency. The capacity of prison is 84 in the closed ward and 40 in the open prison outside the wall. About one third of the prison's inmates are of foreign origin. About 90 people work in Jokela prison, most of them in surveillance and prisoner transport. In Jokela prison's work activities, inmates do various packing and assembly jobs as well as clothing maintenance. In addition, in Jokela prison, inmates can complete the Valma training, which prepares them for vocational studies and working life, organized by the Spesia vocational college. The prison has a prison shop open to the public, where products made by inmates are sold. See also * Prisons in Finland Asia and Oceania Australia Many prisons in Australia were built by convict labo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jokelan Kisa
Jokelan Kisa (abbreviated JoKi) is a sports club from Jokela, Finland. The club was formed in 1931 and in its early years specialised in athletics, gymnastics and skiing followed later by boxing, weight lifting and pesäpallo. Today the club has 4 sections covering skiing, football, volleyball and badminton. The men's football team currently plays in the Nelonen (Fourth Division) and their home ground is at the Jokelan kenttä. In total JoKi has around 450 members. Background JoKi's men's team has competed in the lower divisions of the Finnish football league. They have had mixed results in the last decade and they did not participate in the 2008 season. However, a year later in 2009 they closely missed out on promotion to the Vitonen (Fifth Division) finishing only 1 point behind FC Loviisa and Lahen Pojat JS. On 3 June 2010 the team recorded their biggest ever win with a 30–0 away victory over Hyvinkään Urheiluseura 1. The club currently has 12 football teams comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jokela High School
Jokela High School is a public secondary school in Jokela School Centre () in the village of Jokela, Tuusula municipality, Finland. It is located 43 kilometres outside the capital Helsinki. The school educates about 450 pupils."Eight Dead in Jokela" , The Jawa Report Jokela School Centre also houses grades 7–9. 
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Jokela Rail Accident
The Jokela rail accident occurred on 21 April 1996, at 07:08 local time (04:08 UTC) in Tuusula, Finland, approximately north of Helsinki. Four people were killed and 75 injured when express train P82 from Oulu, bound for Helsinki, derailed in heavy fog. The overnight sleeper train was carrying 139 passengers and five crew members. The official investigation found the accident was caused by overspeeding through a slow-speed turnout. It is estimated that the total cost of the accident was over FIM 26 million (€4.3 million). Causes Railway maintenance work was going on near Jokela railway station, and the usual southbound track was out of service. Because of heavy fog and high speed, the driver was unable to see or react in time to the distant signal that warned about a divergent routing with a turnout speed limit of ahead. The visibility was a few dozen metres. Before the accident, drivers of passing trains had reported that the visibility of signals was very low. Moreover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuusula
Tuusula (; ) is a municipality in Finland, located in the southern interior of the country. Tuusula is situated in the centre of the Uusimaa region. The population of Tuusula is approximately . It is the most populous Municipalities of Finland, municipality in Finland and the second most populous municipality without city status () after Nurmijärvi. Tuusula is part of the Helsinki metropolitan area, which has approximately million inhabitants. A Laurus nobilis, laurel branch in the coat of arms of Tuusula refers to the local artist community and a wheellock was borrowed from the coat of arms of the Stålhane noble family, which has long been influential in Tuusula. The coat of arms was designed by Olof Eriksson in 1953. Geography Tuusula, lying on the shores of Tuusulanjärvi lake, is located in the provinces of Finland, province of Southern Finland and is part of the Uusimaa (region), Uusimaa regions of Finland, region. It covers an area of of which is water. The po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kauhajoki School Shooting
The Kauhajoki school shooting occurred on 23 September 2008 at the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences (SeAMK) in Kauhajoki, Finland. The gunman, 22-year-old student Matti Juhani Saari, shot and killed ten people with a Walther P22 Target semi-automatic pistol, before shooting himself in the head. He died a few hours later at Tampere University Hospital. One woman was injured but remained in stable condition. The shooting took place at the Kauhajoki School of Hospitality, owned by the Seinäjoki Municipal Federation of Education. The facilities and campus were shared between SeAMK and the Seinäjoki Vocational Education Centre – Sedu. Saari was a second-year student in a Hospitality Management undergraduate degree programme. The incident was the second school shooting in less than a year in Finland, the other being the Jokela school shooting in November 2007, in which nine people including the gunman died. The first similar incident in the country's history was the Rauman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nukari
Nukari (; ) is a village located in the northeast part of Nurmijärvi municipality of Finland, near the border of Tuusula municipality. The nearest neighboring village is Jokela, about 4 kilometers. Next to Nukari is the Finnish national road 45, national road 45, which runs between Helsinki, Tuusula and Hyvinkää. The population of village is about 350 inhabitants. The Vantaa (river), River Vantaa, which flows through Nukari, has probably brought settlement to Nukari already during the Stone Age. Indeed, three artifacts from the Stone Age have been found on Nukari; flat chisel, hammer ax and polished stone. During the Bronze Age the settlement disappeared, whereas in the Iron Age the whole Uusimaa was mainly hunting ground for Estonians and later for Tavastians. With the Crusades in Sweden, Nukari was once again populated. The bridge over the rapids called ''Nukarinkoski'' (or ''Pengerkoski'') in River Vantaa and the road from Helsinki to Hyvinkää (current MT 45), required co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
