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Finland attack: 2 killed in Turku stabbing spree<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Finland attack: 2 killed in Turku stabbing spree:- At least two people were killed and six others hospitalized Friday in a stabbing attack at two markets in the Finnish city of Turku, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Officers took a suspect into custody after shooting him in the leg, police said. Friday night, state broadcaster YLE reported police had taken several other suspects into custody.<\/span><\/p>\n

Police have not revealed a motive and said it was too early to tell whether the attack was terror-related.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We have a heightened awareness level of terrorism currently, but we did not have any specific threats to act upon,” Turku Superintendent Stephan Sundqvist told CNN.<\/span><\/p>\n

The attack prompted police to boost patrols across the country, and security has been tightened at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport and train stations. Police said on Twitter that they were also patrolling a shopping mall.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finnish Interior Minister Paula Risikko told YLE the identity of the attacker was still unknown.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘There was blood everywhere’<\/span><\/p>\n

The attack occurred around 4 p.m. local time (9 a.m. ET) at two marketplaces close to each other in the city center — Kauppatori, known in English as Central Market Square, as well as the Puutori Market Square, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kent Svensson, 44, of Sweden said he witnessed a man with “a huge white knife” running and stabbing people in his path.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It was really horrible. We were sitting on a terrace just next to the square and this woman just screamed like hell and this guy was standing in front of her with a huge knife just stabbing people,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“There was blood everywhere,” he said, adding that he saw a victim lying on the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finnish media published photographs of the attack site, and one showed a body covered with a white sheet. Others showed a small crowd around someone apparently bleeding on a cobblestone road and several ambulances around a cordoned-off area.<\/span><\/p>\n

Three people are now undergoing surgery, YLE reported, citing hospital sources.<\/span><\/p>\n

Police warned the public to stay away from the city center.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mayor urges calm<\/span><\/p>\n

Turku sits on the coast around 140 kilometers (around 85 miles) west of the capital, Helsinki. With a population of about 185,000, it’s an important business and cultural center.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sundqvist said police were on the scene within a few minutes of the first reports of the stabbings.<\/span><\/p>\n

“There was only one shot fired and the aggressor was apprehended and brought to hospital,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The mayor of Turku, Aleksi Randell, said the city center appears to be safe now and urged citizens to remain calm.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I want to say this to all our residents: It is difficult to understand that such violence would happen on this scale in Turku,” he said in a statement posted on the city website.<\/span><\/p>\n

Occurrences that have been all too frequent in Europe and around the world have now arrived here, which is what (we’ve) been afraid of.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The Finnish government convened Friday to discuss the attack and condemned it.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The act is utterly deplorable and an exceptionally serious violent offense in the Finnish context — it is deeply shocking for us all,” Prime Minister Juha Sipil\u00e4 said on the government website.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2017\/08\/18\/europe\/finland-stabbing\/index.html<\/span><\/p>\n

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