Two Dead, Six Injured In Finland Stabbing Spree
Umer Jamshaid Published August 18, 2017 | 10:40 PM
Two people were killed and six were injured in a stabbing spree in the Finnish city of Turku on Friday, police said, after officers shot one suspect and warned several others could still be at large
HELSINKI, , (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Aug, 2017 ) : Two people were killed and six were injured in a stabbing spree in the Finnish city of Turku on Friday, police said, after officers shot one suspect and warned several others could still be at large.
"There are eight victims in the stabbing. Two dead and six injured," Turku police tweeted after the assault in a market square. Police shot one suspect in the legs and arrested him. Security forces wrote on Twitter that police were "looking for other possible perpetrators".
"They ask the population to leave and avoid central Turku," the tweet added. The motive of the suspect or suspects was not immediately known. The stabbing spree comes with Europe on high alert a day after drivers slammed vehicles into pedestrians in two attacks in Spain, killing at least 14 people and injuring more than 100 others.
The Islamic State (IS) group has claimed responsibility for the Barcelona attack. In Turku, images of a body covered in a white blanket at the scene of the stabbing was published on some online news sites, including the local daily Turun Sanomat.
The attack took place in the heart of the port city in southwestern Finland, just after 3:00 pm (1300 GMT) in a bustling neighbourhood. "I saw an old woman, I tried to help her. She was bleeding all over her body," Wali Hashi, who witnessed the attack, told AFP.
"She was wounded to her neck with the knife... I took her aside." Another witness, who did not want to give his name, told public television YLE: "A young woman screamed really loudly at one corner of the square.
We saw a man on the square, with a knife in his hand and he was waving it." Central Turku -- located about 140 kilometres (90 miles) from the capital Helsinki -- was swiftly cordoned off and stores and restaurants closed.
Police also tweeted that they had raised their emergency readiness nationwide, increasing security at airports and train stations. "The number of patrols is being increased, information gathering is intensified," they wrote.
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