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  Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Myyrmanni bombing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
The bomb killed 7, including a 7-year-old child and the bomber, Petri Gerdt, a 19-year-old chemistry student from Espoo-Vantaa Institute of Technology.
The bomb was about 2-3 kilograms, with shotgun pellets in the explosive to increase lethality.
The reason of a bombing was unknown, it was expected that the bomb exploded too early.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/my/Myyrmanni_bombing   (136 words)

  
 HS Metro 11.3.2003 - Report on aftermath of Myyrmanni bombing released
The bombing of the Myyrmanni shopping centre in Vantaa five months ago revealed a number of shortcomings and room for improvement in how rescue officials operate.
A small problem at the Myyrmanni bombing was the fact that the highest-ranking medical personnel were not easily identifiable from any external insignia.
This happened in connection with the Myyrmanni bombing, and as a result, hospitals did not always know how many emergency patients were coming, or the nature of their injuries.
www2.hs.fi /english/archive/news.asp?id=20030311IE8   (500 words)

  
 Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Myyrmanni bombing"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
The bomb killed seven, including a 7-year-old child and the bomber, Petri Gerdt, a 19-year-old chemical engineering student from EVTEK (Espoo-Vantaa Institute of Technology).
The bomb weighed about 2-3 kilograms, consisting of ammonium nitrate and nitromethane with shotgun pellets added to increase lethality.
Apparently Gerdt used to explode his home-made bombs in nearby forests, and it is possible that he was just transporting the bomb to be set off somewhere else.
www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=myyrmanni_bombing   (226 words)

  
 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Myyrmanni bombing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
The Myyrmanni bombing took place on October 11, 2002 in the town of Vantaa, Finland, just north of Helsinki, in the local Myyrmanni shopping mall.
The motive of his deed is unclear: it is suspected that the bomb exploded prematurely and by accident.
The bombing was particularly shocking for Finland and the other Nordic countries, where bombings are extremely uncommon.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Myyrmanni_bombing   (321 words)

  
 Myyrmanni bombing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
The bomb killed seven, including a 7-year-old child and the bomber, Petri Gerdt, a 19-year-old chemistry student from Evtek, Espoo-Vantaa Institute of Technology.
The bomb weighed about 2-3 kilograms, with shotgun pellets added to increase lethality.
The motive for the bombing is unknown; it is suspected that the bomb exploded prematurely and by accident.
www.abcworld.net /Myyrmanni_bombing.html   (167 words)

  
 October 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Myyrmanni bombing: A suicide bomber explodes at the Myyrmanni Shopping Mall in Vantaa, Finland, killing 7 including the bomber.
2002 Bali terrorist bombing: A car-bomb on the Indonesian island of Bali explodes outside a nightclub killing at least 182 people, 75% of whom are said to have been foreign holidaymakers.
Nine bombs exploded in Soweto, South Africa and the vicinity and one near Pretoria.
en.encyclopediahome.com /wiki/October_2002   (2540 words)

  
 Explosion at Myyrmanni
We decided that it would be good to have her checked at the medical care center at Myyrmanni, in case she had an ear infection.
Saturday morning presented a suprise: the explosion at Myyrmanni was caused by a bomb.
The bomb exploded in the main corridor on the first floor, in the center of the shopping mall, near the lifts and a staircase.
radio.weblogs.com /0112083/stories/2002/10/12/explosionAtMyyrmanni.html   (1577 words)

  
 Petri Gerdt information - Search.com
It is unclear on whether the incident was an accident or an act of suicide or homicide bombing.
According to Gerdt's parents, he had been frequently detonating homemade bombs in the woods nearby, and had merely been passing through the mall on his way there when the bomb was set off accidentally.
This conclusion arises from the fact that the bomb used shotgun pellets in its construction, indicating it was meant to kill.
domainhelp.search.com /reference/Petri_Gerdt   (268 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Finland mall bomber died in blast
The bomb, planted by a Helsinki University student, "was built to cause maximum damage", said a spokesman for Finnish Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen.
The bomb contained 4lb (1.8kg) of explosive materials and a number of ball-bearings or similar materials which acted as shrapnel.
Investigators said he carried the crude home-made bomb into the mall which was packed with thousands of weekend shoppers.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/2322275.stm   (388 words)

  
 Universal Rule
Vantaa Daily Photo: "The Myyrmanni bombing took place on October 11, 2002 in Myyrmäki in the Myyrmanni shopping mall.
The bomb killed seven, including a 7-year-old child and the bomber, Petri Gerdt, a 19-year-old chemical engineering student from EVTEK (Espoo-Vantaa Institute of Technology)." [via Technorati Search for: http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/]
Programming Humor at The Daily WTF: " If you're a programmer or otherwise involved in creating software, you should really be reading The Daily WTF.
radio.weblogs.com /0112083/2006/10/23.html   (135 words)

  
 CNN.com - Finland mall blast 'killed bomber' - Oct. 12, 2002
Police bomb squads with sniffer dogs were searching the area on Saturday, which is expected to be cordoned off for several days.
The last time the Nordic country was rocked by an explosion was in July when a car bomb killed a Finn in what authorities said was probably a gangland attack.
The last time such a deadly peacetime incident occurred in Finland was in 1976 when 40 people died from an explosion at a munitions factory, Finnish news agency STT said.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/10/12/helsinki.explosion/index.html   (531 words)

  
 Bomb Explodes in Downtown Toronto - Page 2 - Military Photos
Emergency Task Force and Bomb Squad investigators are currently on the scene and are looking for any secondary devices.
The Police chief was very careful to not use the “B” (bomb) and/or “T” ((terrorist) word, but then I’m sure he was told to by our “don’t worry be happy” heads up his ass socialist mayor.
That has happened, for example the 2002 Myyrmanni mall bombing in Vantaa, Finland (also known as the "Kotikemian forumi" or "home chemists' Internet forum" incident).
www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=77280&page=2   (936 words)

  
 Station Information - Vantaa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Its main claim to fame is being the location of the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport.
On October 11, 2002, the city was shocked by the explosion of a bomb in the local Myyrmanni Shopping Mall, killing 7, including the bomber, a 19 year old Chemistry student from Espoo-Vantaa Institute of Technology.
For more information on this issue see Myyrmanni bombing.
www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/v/va/vantaa.html   (132 words)

  
 2002 - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-control bomb explodes during a holiday parade, killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
June 14 - Twelve are killed and 50 injured by a car bomb explosion in front of the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.
A car bomb kills at least 30 people in Afghanistan, and an apparent assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai fails the same day.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/2002   (3372 words)

  
 4 in Finland suspected of aiding bomber on Internet
Police described the bomb as a homemade explosive that weighed up to 6 1/2 pounds, was packed with metal shards and shotgun pellets, and contained ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer used in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
While the authorities have not been able to point to a reason for the bombing, they said it was fairly clear that it was the work of Gerdt and was not related to an outside group, or to terrorism.
About 30 people remain in the hospital for treatment of injuries from the bombing, but most are expected to be discharged by the end of the week, officials at Helsinki University Hospital said.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/10/16/MN212546.DTL   (472 words)

  
 Informat.io on 2002
May 9 - In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-control bomb explodes during a holiday parade, killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
May 22 - American civil rights movement: 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of 4 girls.
June 14 - In Karachi, Pakistan, a car bomb in front of the U.S. Consulate kills 12 Pakistanis and injures 50.
www.vacilando.eu /?title=2002   (2285 words)

  
 Bomb Explodes in Downtown Toronto - Military Photos
Some news reports are saying that the man walked into the washroom and that's when the bomb went off.
They've also said that someone saw a man with a bomb strapped to himself walk into the washroom.
Whatever it is no one was hurt other than the idiot and now there's one less idiot in the world.
www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=77280&page=2   (632 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Six dead in Helsinki mall blast
The cause of the blast is not certain, but reports say it is likely to have been an accident.
Rescue services said the blast had been caused by gas cylinders at the Myyrmanni Shopping Mall in Vantaa, north of the capital.
But Jyrki Karjalainen, director of City Con which manages the mall, said there normally should not have been any gas cylinders or containers in the building.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/world/europe/2321509.stm   (244 words)

  
 Suicide Bombing Encyclopedia Article @ Bombing.us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
The last suicide bombing, on November 6, was also carried out by a woman in northern Gaza.
The main article for this category is Suicide bombing.
There are 6 subcategories to this category shown below (more may be shown on subsequent pages).
www.bombing.us /encyclopedia/Category:Suicide_bombing   (252 words)

  
 Literature Network Forums - View Single Post - Decade since Oklahoma City Bombing
And 10 yeras ago I was too young to care or rather be interested.
Wonder if we here in Finland are going to aknowledge the 10th anniversary of the Myyrmanni-bombing.
Might well be, cos that was the first ever bombing here in Finland.
www.online-literature.com /forums/showpost.php?p=65152&postcount=5   (84 words)

  
 2002
May 9 - The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehemia comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agreed to have 13 suspected militants among them deported to several different countries.
May 22 - American civil rights movement : 16th Street Baptist Church bombing : A jury in Birmingham, Alabama convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls.
October 12 - Bali bombing : Terrorists detonate massive bombs in two nightclubs in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and injuring over 300.
www.destination-luxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/2002   (4807 words)

  
 Decade since Oklahoma City Bombing - Literature Network Forums
I remember where I was when I first heard of the bombing.
I was living in Oregon City, Oregon and was in Social Studies class watching Channel One.
It was a 19-year-old boy, who had made a bomd himself.
www.online-literature.com /forums/showthread.php?t=4402   (500 words)

  
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&year39=2004&month39=3&day39=05&DisDate39=04 5 2004&Title39= Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II begins a state visit to France to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale &year40=2004&month40=3&day40=03&DisDate40=04 3 2004&Title40= A bomb explosion in a Madrid flat kills five suspected terrorists responsible for the Madrid train bombings on March 11, and a Spanish policeman.
&year502=1999&month502=1&day502=16&DisDate502=02 16 1999&Title502= In Uzbekistan a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov &year503=1999&month503=1&day503=16&DisDate503=02 16 1999&Title503= Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrested one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Ocalan.
On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relations&year560=1998&month560=7&day560=07&DisDate560=08 7 1998&Title560= 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: Bombing of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya kills 224 people and injures over 4,500.
www.netreyb.com /timeline/LoadEntry.php   (15800 words)

  
 Learn more about Myyrmanni bombing in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Learn more about Myyrmanni bombing in the online encyclopedia.
You are here: Online Encyclopedia > Myyrmanni bombing
Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /m/my/myyrmanni_bombing.html   (202 words)

  
 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
* May 9 - In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
* June 14 - Twelve are killed and 50 injured by a car bomb explosion in front of the the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.
* October 12 - Bali bombing: Terrorists detonate massive bombs in two nightclubs in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and injuring over 300.
www.wapipedia.com /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=2002   (3573 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC -
A sequence of bombings will probably harden Shiite opinion against disarming militias and further complicate diplomacy for Iraq and the United States.
A grandmother blew herself up in the first suicide bombing claimed by Hamas in nearly two years.
It has been seven years since Nigeria shed its military rule and ostensibly became a democracy, but the transformation has been slow and stumbling.
the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?...&template=wiki&text=2002   (897 words)

  
 MemeStreams | HS Home 22.10.2002 - Myyrmanni: Net detectives found the bomber by themselves
HS Home 22.10.2002 - Myyrmanni: Net detectives found the bomber by themselves
By Kari A. Hintikka and Ossi Leander The after-shocks of the bombing at a Vantaa shopping mall on Friday 11th October have rocked the Internet, with calls for closer surveillance of message boards and counter- claims that the Net itself is not to blame, and in any event it is largely unpoliceable.
Less has been written about the way in which Internet-users carried out their own detective work in the hours and minutes following the fatal explosion.
www.memestreams.net /users/darwin/blogid1783114   (199 words)

  
 What is 2002? : Abaara fun facts and uncommon knowledge - 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Chandra Levy's remains are found in Rock Creek Park.
Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls.
Bali bombing: Terrorists detonate massive bombs in two nightclubs in Kuta,
info.abaara.com /pac/2002   (1517 words)

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