HELSINKI (Reuters) - Three women including a local politician and two journalists were shot dead with a rifle in front of a restaurant in the small Finnish town of Imatra around midnight, police said on Sunday.
A 23-year-old local man with a criminal record was detained at the scene, the Southeastern Finland Police Department said. It said the motive for the killings remained unclear.
#BREAKING: Local mayor and two journalists have been shot dead last night by a sniper in #Imatra #Finland, suspect was arrested pic.twitter.com/bWRCa4ABUq
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1)
“At the moment, it looks like the victims were chosen at random,” Detective Inspector Saku Tielinen told a news conference.
Victim Tiina Wilen-Jappinen was chairwoman of Imatra City Council while the other two women were journalists, the police said.
Police still believes victims of the Imatra shooting were randomly chosen. https://t.co/MvNYI8dlcz
— Veli-Pekka Kivimäki (@vpkivimaki)
(Reporting by Jussi Rosendahl; editing by Jason Neely)
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