Police officers stand next to a person lying on the pavement in the Finnish city of Turku where several people were stabbed on August 18, 2017.
Several people were stabbed in the southwestern Finnish city of Turku, police said after shooting and arresting a suspect. Public television station Yle reported that central Turku was on lockdown, with witnesses saying they had seen bodies lying on the ground in a busy area of the town. Businesses were shut. / AFP PHOTO / Kirsi Kanerva (Photo credit should read KIRSI KANERVA/AFP/Getty Images)
Two dead, eight wounded in Finland stabbing attack
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Two people have been killed in a stabbing attack in western Finland, medical sources report.
Police captured a man suspected of the stabbing in the city of Turku on Friday. He was shot in the leg before he was taken into custody.
“There are eight victims in the stabbing. Two dead and six injured,” Turku police said on Twitter.
Security forces tweeted that police were “looking for other possible perpetrators.”
“People are requested to avoid the city center,” South-West Finland police tweeted at 4:40 p.m. local time.
Police warned that several other suspects could still be at large.
Tabloid Ilta-Sanomat stated that six people were injured, one man and five women, and that a woman with stroller was attacked by a man with a large knife.
Witnesses mentioned hearing multiple gunshots. The attacker shouted extremist slogans allegedly linking him to the Daesh Takfiri terrorists, they said.
The stabbing spree comes hot on the heels of two deadly car ramming attacks in Catalonia which left 14 people dead and some 100 others wounded.
