At least one person was killed and eight people were injured in an attack by unknown passers-by in the Finnish city of Turku, reports on Friday, August 18, broadcaster Yle.
Currently, the police are looking for several alleged attackers. Residents are advised not to appear in the center of the city.
Earlier on August 18 at the passers-by in Turku attacked by an unknown assailant with a knife. Police opened fire on the attackers, then he was arrested. Eyewitnesses tell that heard one or more shots.
Police stepped up security measures at Helsinki airport and at the railway stations of the country.
On 28 July, in one of the supermarkets in the German city of Hamburg armed with a knife unknown attacked the people who were there. As a result one person was killed and several were injured.