'All of them have been identified. They were identified with dental records at first and that was confirmed with DNA,' Inspector Ismo Kopra, detective chief inspector at Finnish National Bureau of Investigation told AFP.

Matti Saari, 22, went on with shooting spree in a classroom at the Kauhajoki vocational school on Tuesday, killing 10 people before setting fire to several parts of the building.

Shortly afterwards he turned the gun on himself. He later died in hospital.

Inspector Kopra said eight of the victims were women in their 20s. The two other victims were a male student in his 20s and a male teacher in his 50s.

The head of the investigation, Jari Neulaniemi, told AFP that the young victims were Saari's classmates.

Inspector Kopra said the bodies of the victims, which had been transferred to Helsinki for identification, would be transported back to their home region in western Finland early next week so the families could prepare funeral arrangements.

This was the second school rampage in less than a year, leaving Finland in a state of shock.

In Nov 2007, Pekka Eric Auvinen, 18, carried out a similar massacre and gunned down eight people before killing himself in a high school in Jokela, north of Helsinki. -- AFP