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KAMEDO Report No. 87: Bomb Attack in Finnish Shopping Center, 2002

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Edward Deverell ,
Per Örtenwall ,
Ola Almgren  and
Louis Riddez
Edward Deverell
Affiliation:
National Board of Health and Welfare Customer Service Webstore or National Board of Health and Welfare Customer Service SE-120 88 Stockholm Fax: +46 8 779 96 67 E-mail: socialstyrelsen@strd.se
Per Örtenwall
Affiliation:
National Board of Health and Welfare Customer Service Webstore or National Board of Health and Welfare Customer Service SE-120 88 Stockholm Fax: +46 8 779 96 67 E-mail: socialstyrelsen@strd.se
Ola Almgren
Affiliation:
National Board of Health and Welfare Customer Service Webstore or National Board of Health and Welfare Customer Service SE-120 88 Stockholm Fax: +46 8 779 96 67 E-mail: socialstyrelsen@strd.se
Louis Riddez
Affiliation:
National Board of Health and Welfare Customer Service Webstore or National Board of Health and Welfare Customer Service SE-120 88 Stockholm Fax: +46 8 779 96 67 E-mail: socialstyrelsen@strd.se
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Abstract

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The detonation of a bomb in a shopping center in Vantaa, Finland, took place on 11 October 2002. Seven people died as a result and > 160 people required medical attention. Because the rescue teams were inadequately trained to respond to terrorist attacks, the event was handled according to protocol. A number of problems arose, including: people from different rescue agencies were difficult to distinguish from each other; there was inadequate communication between the incident site and the main hospital; relatives of victims were not kept informed; and psychiatric problems in the wake of the disaster were not addressed sufficiently.

Keywords

bomb attackcoordinationemergency responseFinland
Type
Special Report
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , February 2007 , pp. 86 - 88
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2007