Several people have been stabbed in a knife attack in the Finnish city of Turku on Friday.
 It is however not immediately clear if this was a militant action or had some other motive. Interior Minister Paula Risikko said she did not yet know whether the attack was related to terrorism.
The Turun Sanomat newspaper reported that at least one person was killed in the attack. Newspaper Helsingin Sanomat said eight people had been taken to hospital following the stabbings, some of them are in critical condition.
Finland is traditionally peaceful but the Finnish Security Intelligence Service raised the terrorism threat level in June, saying it had become aware of more serious terrorism-related plans in Finland.
Turun Sanomat said police were inspecting departing trains and buses. They also reinforced security in Helsinki airport and streets as well as a train station in Vantaa.
Prime Minister Juha Sipila said: "The government is closely following the events in Turku and the ongoing police operation. The government will meet later today."
The government has grown more concerned about attacks, partly after an Uzbek man killed four people in neighboring Sweden in April by driving a hijacked truck into crowd in central Stockholm.
On Thursday, a suspected Islamist militant drove a van into crowds in Barcelona, Spain, killing 13 people and wounding scores of others.
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