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Finland knife attacks probed as terror crimes

Memorial candles at the Market Square for the victims of the stabbings in Turku, Finland, on the evening of August 18, 2017.   | Photo Credit: AP

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The suspect was an 18-year-old Moroccan.

The Finnish police are investigating Friday's knife attacks as crimes related to terrorism, it said on Saturday.

The suspect was an 18-year-old Moroccan, police added. The suspected attacker killed two people and wounded eight in the city of Turku on Friday before police shot him in the leg and arrested him.

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