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Plans for Saudi Arabia’s linear city cut from 170km to 2.4km
Plans for Saudi Arabia’s linear city cut from 170km to 2.4km - Lemmy.World
Saudi Arabia’s wildly ambitious plan to build 500m tall, mirrored, 170km long parallel skyscrapers, forming a 1.5M population desert city has been curtailed to 2.4km long. The news was broken by the financial news publication Bloomberg, which said that Saudi Arabia’s government had “scaled back its medium-term ambitions” for Neom, of which The Line is the most significant sub-project. The Saudi government had hoped to have 1.5M residents living in The Line by 2030, but this has been scaled back to fewer than 300,000, according to the report. It is unclear how it intends to house a higher concentration of people considering the proposed length (and therefore area) has been massively slashed.
Finland shooting: Child, 13, wounds three in Vantaa school shooting
Finland shooting: Child, 13, wounds three in Vantaa school shooting - Lemmy.World
Police say they responded to the incident at Viertola school before 09:00 (06:00 GMT) on Tuesday and urged local residents to remain indoors. A suspect, who police say was also aged 13, has been arrested. The school has 800 students and 90 staff. Witnesses told public broadcaster YLE that two ambulances had left the scene. In common with other Finnish schools, children had just returned to classes in Vantaa, north of the capital Helsinki, after the long Easter weekend. The school has students aged seven to 15 of both primary and middle-school age on two separate sites. As news emerged of the shooting parents gathered at the Jokiranta site where the incident happened. Vantaa is Finland’s fourth biggest city with some 240,000 residents. Finland saw two deadly school shootings in a matter of months in 2007 and 2008, prompting the tightening of gun laws. But it is widely known as a country of hunters and gun enthusiasts and has 430,000 licensed gun owners in a population of 5.5 million, according to government statistics. In 2007, an 18-year-old student shot dead seven pupils and his head teacher in the town of Tuusula, then the following year another student shot dead nine pupils and a teacher in the town of Kauhajoki.