Finnish court names knife attack suspect Abderrahman Mechkah


  • World
  • Monday, 21 Aug 2017

Memorial cards, candles and flowers for the victims of Friday's stabbings are placed on the Market Square in Turku, Finland August 19, 2017. Lehtikuva/Vesa Moilanen/via REUTERS

HELSINKI (Reuters) - The 18-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker suspected of killing two women and wounding eight people with a knife in Finland on Friday is called Abderrahman Mechkah, a court said on Monday.

The crimes are being treated as murder and attempted murder with terrorist intent, the court said an emailed statement.

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