{"id":346029,"date":"2017-08-18T14:48:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T14:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=346029"},"modified":"2017-08-18T14:48:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T14:48:18","slug":"finland-stabbings-man-shot-and-held-after-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/08\/finland-stabbings-man-shot-and-held-after-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland stabbings: Man shot and held after attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"
Police in Finland say they have shot a man who reportedly stabbed several people in the south-western city of Turku.<\/p>\n
The man has been taken into custody after being shot in the leg, police say.<\/p>\n
The incident reportedly took place in the Puutori-Market Square area. One image showed a body lying on the ground. The body had been covered.<\/p>\n
People have been warned to stay away from the city centre.<\/p>\n
Finnish broadcaster YLE\u00a0said at least two other people had been injured in the incident.<\/p>\n
Other reports spoke of five or six victims.<\/p>\n
But there has been no official confirmation of casualties.<\/p>\n
A tweet from South-West Finland police at 16:40 local time (13:40 GMT) read: “Several people stabbed in central Turku. People are requested to avoid the city centre.”<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Turun Sanomat newspaper\u00a0said several ambulances were at the scene and police were carrying out checks on public transport.<\/p>\n
Briton Lee Hills, from Sunderland, sent the BBC a photograph of the scene of the incident. He was being kept in police lockdown in a pub about 200 metres from the scene.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police in Finland say they have shot a man who reportedly stabbed several people in the south-western city of Turku. The man has been taken into custody after being shot in the leg, police say. The incident reportedly took place in the Puutori-Market Square area. One image showed a body lying on the ground. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[10297],"yoast_head":"\n