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Stuart G

(38,438 posts) Fri Aug 18, 2017, 10:25 AM Aug 2017

Several People Stabbed in Finland

Source: CNN

(CNN) — Police in Finland have shot and arrested a suspect after several people were stabbed in the city of Turku.

The suspect was shot in the leg after the stabbings, said police. The public has been asked to move away from the city center, Turku police tweeted.

Finnish police in the Eastern Uusimaa region on Twitter warned citizens to be on alert near the Helsinki-Vantaan airport and train stations.

An image broadcast by state-run YLE shows a small crowd around someone apparently bleeding on a cobblestone road.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18/europe/finland-stabbing/index.html

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Several People Stabbed in Finland (Original Post) Stuart G Aug 2017 OP

You beat me by a few seconds. murielm99 Aug 2017 #1

Yes, terrorism. or..possibly a nut job on the loose. Stuart G Aug 2017 #2

Particularly tragic when you consider Finland used to be the safest country in the world ansible Aug 2017 #4

Two victims dead, possibly other attackers still on the loose muriel_volestrangler Aug 2017 #3

Awful oberliner Aug 2017 #5

BBC update nitpicker Aug 2017 #6

murielm99

(30,754 posts)

1. You beat me by a few seconds.

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Fri Aug 18, 2017, 10:55 AM

Aug 2017

I don't see how this could be anything other than terrorism.

Stuart G

(38,438 posts)

2. Yes, terrorism. or..possibly a nut job on the loose.

Reply to murielm99 (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 18, 2017, 10:59 AM

Aug 2017

Very sad..., either way.

ansible

(1,718 posts)

4. Particularly tragic when you consider Finland used to be the safest country in the world

Reply to murielm99 (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 18, 2017, 01:04 PM

Aug 2017

Now...not so much.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,339 posts)

3. Two victims dead, possibly other attackers still on the loose

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Fri Aug 18, 2017, 12:33 PM

Aug 2017

Two people have been killed and at least six others injured in a stabbing in Finland, police officials say.
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The incident reportedly took place in the Puutori-Market Square area. Police have warned other attackers may remain at large, and asked people to stay away from the city centre.
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Eyewitness Jesse Brown told the BBC: "I saw police shoot a person, a man I think. People were running and there was talk about a knife attack, possibly multiple perpetrators."

A later Twitter post by police read: "The police are searching for possibly more perpetrators in Turku."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40978446

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

5. Awful

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #3)

Fri Aug 18, 2017, 01:45 PM

Aug 2017

What is wrong with people?

nitpicker

(7,153 posts)

6. BBC update

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Sat Aug 19, 2017, 06:02 AM

Aug 2017

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40985528

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