Kanebogen skole
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Kanebogen skole is an elementary school in Kanebogen
Kanebogen
Kanebogen is a part of the city of Harstad in Troms county, Norway. It is located about south of the city center – south of Gangsås, southwest of Stangnes, north of Medkila and southeast of Grønnebakkan....

, a part of Harstad
Harstad
is the second largest city and municipality by population, in Troms county, Norway – the city is also the third largest in North Norway. Thus Harstad is the natural centre for its district. Situated approximately north of the Arctic Circle, the city celebrated its 100th anniversary in...

 city in North Norway. It has more than 300 pupils in classes from 1st to 7th grade and about 35 employees. Situated right next to the school on the northern side is a stadium for sports, Kanebogen Stadion, which was opened in 1979.

School shooting

Tuesday morning 28 April 2009 a nine year old boy in fourth grade brought a 12-gauge
Gauge (bore diameter)
The gauge of a firearm is a unit of measurement used to express the diameter of the barrel. Gauge is determined from the weight of a solid sphere of lead that will fit the bore of the firearm, and is expressed as the multiplicative inverse of the sphere's weight as a fraction of a pound . Thus...

 shotgun
Shotgun
A shotgun is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug...

  and an ammunition belt with ammunition to the school. He first fired a shot at the southern part of the schoolyard, or at the stadium north of it. The gun, which had a single barrel, was then reloaded by the boy.

A female teacher, Margrethe Tresselt, talked to the boy, with no luck. A second shot went off, within the schoolyard, when she grabbed the gun. No one was hit, but many kids witnessed the event as they were about to enter the school for the first period. Another pupil called and informed the police about the school shooting at 08:34 local time.

A reason for the incident was that the boy had been bullied by an older pupil according to the lawyer representing the family of the shooter, who was to continue being a pupil at the school. The father of the boy was fined NOK
Norwegian krone
The krone is the currency of Norway and its dependent territories. The plural form is kroner . It is subdivided into 100 øre. The ISO 4217 code is NOK, although the common local abbreviation is kr. The name translates into English as "crown"...

 10 000 (May 2009 average: €1139 or US$1553) for not keeping his two guns (the shotgun and a rifle) and ammunition according to the rules. The police also confiscated the weapons and ammunition (which he legally had owned). This is the first school shooting in Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

where live ammunition was fired by a student.
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