Terror attack in Siberia

ISIS step up terror attacks: Russia knife attacker wounds seven in Surgut bringing total of 16 dead and almost 100 injured in 3 horrific days

ISIS terror attacks hit Russian city after attacks in Spain and Finland...

the Big Wobble,

19 August, 2017

A man armed with a knife has attacked pedestrians in the Russian city of Surgut, injuring seven. Police killed the assailant, the local branch of the Investigative Committee reported.

Yesterday Finland became the latest European country to suffer a terrorist attack as two people were killed and at least 6 others injured after a stabbing incident in the south-western city of Turku.

According to reports Police shot the attacker in the leg and arrested him, he was known to Police.Seven people have been wounded in a knife attack in the Russian city of Surgut, security sources say. The man, who apparently stabbed passers-by on the street at random, was shot dead by police.

The injured have been taken to hospital, where two are in a critical condition, the state-owned RIA Novosti news agency reports.

The Islamic State militant group (IS) said on its official news channel that it was behind the attack. Russia's Investigations Committee said it had identified the attacker and was checking his psychological history.

The attacker was a local resident born in 1994, it said.

A spokeswoman for the committee told Reuters news agency she would not comment on the possibility of terrorist motives, calling the attack "attempted murder".

The attack happened at about 11:20 local time (06:20 GMT).

An earlier statement said eight people had been wounded, but that was later revised to seven.

Surgut, about 2,100km (1,300 miles) east of Moscow in the Khanty-Mansiysk area of Siberia, has a population of more than 350,000.

Finland is the latest European country to suffer a terrorist attack yesterday as two people are killed and at least 6 others injured

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the Big Wobble,

19 August, 2017

Finland is the latest European country to suffer a terrorist attack yesterday as two people were killed and at least 6 others injured after a stabbing incident in the south-western city of Turku.

According to reports Police shot the attacker in the leg and arrested him, he was known to Police.

One of the victims, a woman, was stabbed several times in the neck on Friday. The victims were adults and three are in intensive care.Police have raided a flat and made a number of arrests overnight."We are investigating what their role is in this. Whether they had something to do with this act, or if they were just involved with this person," detective superintendent Markus Laine told Finnish news agency SST.The raided flat is in the Varissuo area of Turku, home to a large immigrant population.Earlier, Interior Minister Paula Risikko described the suspect as "foreign-looking" and linked the attack to the murder of 14 people in Barcelona, according to the BBC.