A young Finnish man who killed 10 people at his former school this week played computer games with a teen who carried out a similar massacre, a friend said. Matti Saari, 22, took his own life after shooting a teacher and nine students at the high school in Kauhajoki.

The internet college massacre gunman left notes saying he wanted to kill as many people as possible, it emerged yesterday. Matti Saari, who shot dead nine students, eight of them women, and a male tutor, "really went out with the intention of killing," police chief Jari Neulaniemi said.

By Marius Turula Associated Press KAUHAJOKI, Finland -- This sparsely populated nation near the Arctic Circle has long clung to an ethos of rugged individualism where, unlike in most of Western Europe, the right to bear arms is deeply ingrained in the culture.

Matti Juhani Saari, 22, turned the gun on himself and died in hospital after the rampage in Kauhajoki, the country's second school massacre in less than a year.Saari had been taken in by police on Monday over YouTube postings in which he is seen firing a .22 calibre Walther automatic pistol and naming videos from America's Columbine school massacre as among his favourites, Interior Minister Anne Holmlund admitted.She said Saari, who got his first firearms licence only last month, was released because there were no legal grounds to hold him.The YouTube clips showed a young man wearing a leather jacket firing several shots in rapid succession with a handgun at what appears to be a shooting range.The posting was made five days before the shooting and the location was given as Kauhajoki the same town as yesterday's shooting.It included a message saying: "Whole life is war and whole life is pain.

By LIAM CHRISTOPHER A MASKED gunman who killed nine fellow students at a Finnish college yesterday had been questioned then released on Monday by police over violent videos he posted on the internet.