People bring memorial candles and flowers to the Turku Market Square for the victims of Friday's stabbings in Turku, Finland August 19, 2017. Lehtikuva/Vesa Moilanen via REUTERS
HELSINKI/TURKU, Finland (Reuters) - A Moroccan man who was arrested for killing two women in a knife rampage was an asylum seeker who appeared to have targeted women in Finland's first terrorism-related attack, police and a Red Cross official said on Saturday.
The 18-year-old suspect, arrested in the city of Turku following Friday's attack in which eight other people - six of them women - were wounded, arrived in Finland last year, police said. Police shot the suspect in the leg before his arrest.
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