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Vantaa
[ vahn-tah ]
noun
- a city in S Finland, on the N border of Helsinki.
Example Sentences
In Finland, protesters were pictured blocking security gates at Helsinki Vantaa Airport.
In the aftermath of the shooting that saw a 12-year-old kill another child and injure two in the city of Vantaa, north of the capital Helsinki, the headlines in Finland have been full of soul-searching.
Instead, harrowing details about the events in Vantaa have continued to emerge.
In the Vantaa case, thee boy does not appear to have talked about his plans with anybody - and so may have fallen through the cracks.
As it stands, the Vantaa suspect will not face charges and has been placed in the care of social services - so some sections of Finnish society are calling for the age of criminal responsibility to be lowered from 15.
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