Finnish police search new sites, talk to suspect in knife rampage probe


  • World
  • Sunday, 20 Aug 2017

People attend a moment of silence to commemorate the victims of Friday's stabbings at the Turku Market Square in Turku, Finland August 20, 2017. Lehtikuva/Vesa Moilanen via REUTERS

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Police searched premises in the city of Turku and interviewed the chief suspect on Sunday as part of an investigation into Finland's first suspected Islamist militant attack.

The National Bureau of Investigation said it had organised a reconstruction of Friday's knife rampage in the western city of Turku and raided addresses in its Runosmaki district.

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