[GreenCharlotte]

At least two people have been killed and six others hospitalized in a stabbing attack in the Finnish city of Turku on Friday, state broadcaster YLE reported.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/18/eu...ing/index.html

At least two people have been killed and six others hospitalized in a stabbing attack in the Finnish city of Turku on Friday.

Three people are now undergoing surgery, YLE reports, citing hospital sources.

Police earlier shot and arrested a suspect after the stabbing in the southwestern city and said they were searching for other possible perpetrators.

The suspect was shot in the leg after the attack, said police, who warned the public to move away from the city center.

Police officers help evacuate someone after the attack.

The attack has prompted a boost to police patrols across the country and security has been tightened at the Helsinki-Vantaan airport and train stations.

Turku lies around 140 kilometers (around 85 miles) west of the capital, Helsinki.

Finland's National Police Commissioner Seppo Kolehmainen said it was too soon to tell if the attack in was terror-related, according to YLE.

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.

A body covered in a white sheet was photographed at the attack site.

The attack occurred at two market places close to each other in the city center -- Kauppatori, known in English as Central Market Square, as well as the Puutori Market Square, YLE reported.

Police said they were also patrolling a shopping mall.

Blood stains were seen on the streets at the attack site in Turku on Friday.

Kent Svensson, 44, from Sweden who was in Turku said he witnessed a man with "a huge white knife" running and stabbing people in his path.

"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.

"There was blood everywhere," he said, adding that he saw a victim lying on the ground.

[kellyhound]

Suspect has been shot and arrested.
Interior Minister Paula Risikko described the suspect as "foreign-looking" and linked the attack to the murder of 14 people in Barcelona. Finnish authorities have said, however, that it is too early to describe the incident as terrorism.
The attack was over in a matter of minutes.

[GreenCharlotte]

Witnesses (@facebook) say they heard him shout Allahu akbar, nothing has been confirmed yet of course..

[MadCore]

Originally Posted by GreenCharlotte ↗

Witnesses (@facebook) say they heard him shout Allahu akbar, nothing has been confirmed yet of course..

On the video someone yells "varokaa" which means "beware".

[rheedork]

"Vittu se veti monta matalaks" - Fuck he took down many

Yup yup. Gladly I didn't have a day off since I most likely would've gone there to do some shopping.

[rheedork]

Was the middle video of the young people chasing him with a baseball bat? Looks like a bat to me and I heard they got a swing at his leg or something (before he got shot). No one's yelling allahu akbar there, they're indeed saying "Äkkiä pois! Varo! Varokaa!" = Hurry away! Watch out!

[GreenCharlotte]

Originally Posted by rheedork ↗

-- No one's yelling allahu akbar there, --

Maybe it's not on this video, but does it mean he didn't yell it?

https://www.voice.fi/ilmiot/a-149217

- Hän käveli meitä kohti kädet levällään ja huusi Allahia. Luulin aluksi, että hänellä saattaa olla pommi, mutta sitten huomasi että hänen toisessa kädessään oli verinen puukko. (-He walked towards us with his arms spread and yelled Allah. At first i thought he might have a bomb, but then i noticed he was holding a bloody knife.)

So some witnesses say he did yell it, ofc we can't be sure but..i wouldn't be surprised if he did.

[kellyhound]

The 18-year-old Moroccan man suspected of carrying out Friday’s deadly knife attack in Finland appeared to have targeted women as his victims, one of whom was British, police said.

Officers said they were now treating the attack in Turku, in which two people were killed and eight injured, as a terrorist act.

The two people killed were Finnish, while a Briton, two Swedes and one Italian were among those injured.

Four of the wounded were still being treated in hospital – three in intensive care – while the rest of those injured were expected to be discharged on Saturday.

The suspect arrived in Finland in 2016 and had been “part of the asylum process”, police said.

Officers arrested five people – four of whom were Moroccan – in a Turku apartment on Friday night as part of their investigation.

“There was a raid and we have now six suspects in custody, the main suspect and five others,” said Det Supt Markus Laine of the national bureau of investigation.

just knew it

[rheedork]

In a situation like that I don't really seem to understand those who choose to run away or hide. If you see someone madly stabbing every woman they come across wouldn't you go fuck him up? Still proud of the men who chased him away, especially when knowing that one of the chasers was a 70yo.

[Oswald2001]

Yeah.

Keep bringing them in...