List of massacres in Finland

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Finland (numbers may be approximate):

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Notes
Åbo Bloodbath	November 10, 1599	Turku	14
Klaukkala axe murders	May 10, 1899	Nurmijärvi	7
Officers' Swimming School [fi]	September 1917	Viipuri	20+	Massacre of Kornilovite high-ranking officers by Bolshevism-supporting soldiers[1]
Toijala executions [fi]	April 15, 1918	Toijala	100	The Red forces killed about 100 members of the White Guard, bourgeois, civil servants and schoolchildren in the area[2]
Toijala executions [fi]	25 April–May 3, 1918	Toijala	122
Koria massacre [fi]	1918	Kouvola	120
Varkaus executions		Varkaus	170–180
Suinula massacre [fi]	January 31, 1918	Kangasala	17	Thirty seriously wounded.
Vihti executions [fi]	February 1, 1918	Vihti	18
Nurmijärvi murders	February 1, 1918	Nurmijärvi	4[3]
Pori lyceum massacre [fi]	February 6, 1918	Pori	11
Lottery of Huruslahti	February 21, 1918	Varkaus	90	90 Red Guard prisoners of war were killed by the White Guards
Harmoinen sanatorium massacre	March 10, 1918	Kuhmoinen	13
Koliahde massacre	March 10, 1918	Noormarkku	16
Länkipohja massacre [fi]	March 16, 1918	Jämsä	80
Kuurila train murders [fi]	April 19, 1918	Hämeenlinna	23
Lappeenranta massacre [fi]	April 25, 1918	Lappeenranta	23
Viipuri County Prison massacre [fi]	27 April–28, 1918	Viipuri	30
Valkeakoski Women's Guard massacre	May 1, 1918	Valkeakoski	36
Tampere executions [fi]	April–May 1918	Tampere	1,000	Whites executed hundreds of capitulated Reds. See also Battle of Tampere § Aftermath.
Vyborg massacre	April–June 1918	Viipuri	400	Massacre of ethnic Russians and foreigners
Perttula executions	18 May–24, 1918	Nurmijärvi	21[3][4]	Seven of the victims were murdered on the eighteenth, five on the nineteenth, two on the twentieth, five on the twenty-first and one on the twenty-fourth. One of the victims, Kalle Fredrik Aaltio (b. December 20, 1882), was decapitated on May 19, 1918. As were three other individuals on May 21 of that same year.
Västankvarn executions [fi]	2 May–26, 1918	Ingå	60+
Karhiniemi axe murders	March 17, 1943	Huittinen	6
Soso railway stop murders [fi]	April 3, 1953	Muhos	4
Lake Bodom murders	June 5, 1960	Espoo	3	1 injured; perpetrator unknown
Pihtipudas police killings [fi]	March 7, 1969	Pihtipudas	4
Raumanmeri school shooting	January 24, 1989	Rauma	2
Kotka murders	18 April–19, 1994	Kotka	3
Helsinki Shooting Club killings	February 21, 1999	Helsinki	3	1 injured
Myyrmanni bombing	October 11, 2002	Vantaa	7	159 injured
Jokela school shooting	November 7, 2007	Tuusula	9	1 injured
Kauhajoki school shooting	September 23, 2008	Kauhajoki	11	1 injured
Sello mall shooting	December 31, 2009	Espoo	6
Hyvinkää shooting	May 26, 2012	Hyvinkää	2	8 injured
2017 Turku attack	August 18, 2017	Turku	2	8 injured + attacker injured

See also

• List of massacres in the Finnish Civil War