Candles in front of the restaurant Vuoksenvahti where three women were killed in a shooting incident in Imatra, Eastern Finland on Sunday, 4th December, 2016. Hannu Rissanen/Lehtikua via REUTERS
HELSINKI (Reuters) - A local politician and two journalists, all of them women, were shot dead with a rifle in front of a restaurant in the Finnish town of Imatra, police said on Sunday.
The Southeastern Finland Police Department said it suspected a 23-year-old local man drove to the scene around midnight on Saturday, took a hunting rifle from the trunk of his car and fired four or five shots.
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