January 15, 2008	Tuesday	Muharram 05, 1429

OSLO, Jan 14: Police in Norway closed a secondary school near Oslo on Monday after a video warning of a high school massacre was discovered on the Internet, police said.

A 15-year-old student at the Kjenn school, whose name has not been disclosed, has admitted posting the video clip on the YouTube video-sharing site.

“He has not been arrested (and) he is not in police custody. We will speak with him and his father during the day,” Loerenskog police chief superintendent Jens Bruun said.

The 50-second video, posted on YouTube on Saturday, was removed late on Sunday.

With music playing in the background, it showed a picture of the school, Bruun said. Pictures of six teachers then popped up, as a voice said: “It will happen one day, it will be a bloody machine, one day you will die.” Bruun would not comment on the boy’s explanation, but said police did not believe he was in possession of weapons. The Kjenn school, some 15 km east of Oslo, has about 400 students aged 13 to 17, Bruun said.

A number of schools in the Nordic countries have been evacuated and closed due to threats since Nov 7, when 18-year-old Finnish student Pekka-Eric Auvinen killed eight people before turning his gun on himself at the Jokela High School north of Helsinki. Before the massacre, Auvinen posted videos and messages on YouTube indicating what he planned to do.—AFP