Police have shot a suspect after several people were stabbed in Turku, Finland on Friday.
One person has been killed, reports Helsinki newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, after police used a firearm to stop a knifeman during an attack in the city of Turku, in the southwest of Finland. A manhunt is underway as police search for what they described as “more perpetrators” in the city, suggesting there may have been a brawl or even mass attack.
Unverified images uploaded to the media sharing platform Snapchat claiming to have been taken at the scene show scenes of mayhem in the Finnish city, with blood running between the cobbles on the streets and a body covered in a sheet.
Finnish police confirmed through Twitter that “several” people had been stabbed during the incident and that their officers had shot one person.
The local force has ordered people to avoid the city cenre until further notice, and officers are checking public transport leaving the city centre.
The apparent attack comes just hours after a terror spree saw Spanish regional capital Barcelona locked down by police, with a suspected killer still on the run.