Killer 'targeted women' in Finland's first suspected terror attack
Helsinki: A Moroccan man who was arrested for killing two women in a knife rampage appeared to have targeted women in Finland's first terrorism-related attack, police said.
The 18-year-old suspect, arrested in the city of Turku following the attack in which eight other people - six of them women - were wounded, arrived in Finland last year as an asylum seeker, police said. Police shot the suspect in the leg before his arrest.
Police also arrested four other Moroccan men over possible links to him and issued an international arrest warrant for a sixth Moroccan, they said.
The manager of the Red Cross reception centre in Turku, where flags flew at half-mast on Saturday, said the suspect was an asylum seeker. "I cannot comment on [his] application's outcome," Heimo Nurmi said.
He said police visited the centre and had detained several people. "The arrests were non-violent," he added.
It was not clear if the attack was in any way linked to the suspect's asylum application.
The case marks the first suspected terror attack in Finland, where violent crime is relatively rare. Police said they were investigating possible links to Thursday's deadly van attack in the Spanish city of Barcelona.
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