Two dead, eight wounded in knife attack in Finland


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  • Friday, 18 Aug 2017

Candles at Turku Market Square for the victims of Friday's stabbings are pictured in Turku, Finland August 18, 2017. LEHTIKUVA/Vesa Moilanen via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS – THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. NOT FOR USE BY REUTERS THIRD PARTY DISTRIBUTORS.

TURKU, Finland (Reuters) - A man with a knife killed two people and wounded eight others in a stabbing rampage in a market square in the Finnish city of Turku on Friday, police said.

Police shot the suspected attacker in the leg and arrested him. They said they had yet to establish the identity of the man who was of foreign origin, or his motive.

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