Two people have been killed and six others were injured in a stabbing incident in the western Finnish city of Turku, police said.
A suspect is in custody and being treated in hospital after officers shot him.
Several persons stabbed in central Turku. Police has shot at suspected perpetrator. One person is apprehendee
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Turku is about 90 miles west of the capital, Helsinki.
Security is being stepped up across the country in the wake of the incident, Finland’s interior minister Paula Risikko said during a news conference.
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