Photo: ReutersA Moroccan man who was arrested for killing two women in a knife rampage was an asylum seeker who appeared to have targeted women in Finland's first terrorism-related attack, police and a Red Cross official said on Saturday (local time). The 18-year-old suspect, arrested in the city of Turku following Friday's attack in which eight other people - six of them women - were wounded, arrived in Finland last year, police said. Finnish broadcaster MTV, citing an unnamed source, said the main suspect had been denied asylum in Finland, although police said only he had been "part of the asylum process". The case marks the first suspected terror attack in Finland, where violent crime is relatively rare. Both of those killed in the Turku attack, and six of the eight who were wounded, were women, the police said.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 19, 2017 19:52 UTC