Contemporary era · 2017

2017 Turku attack

On 18 August 2017, a mass stabbing took place in Turku, Finland. Two women were killed and eight others were injured before the perpetrator, 22-year-old Abderrahman Bouanane, was detained. Boaunane, a Moroccan rejected asylum seeker, had been using the alias Abderrahman Mechkah, which was later discovered to be a false identity.

2017 Turku attack
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When
18 Aug 2017
Where
VI District
Era
Contemporary

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