Attacker who injured passersby, two seriously, was shot dead by policeEight people have been injured in a knife attack in the Siberian city of Surgut, according to Russian news agency reports. “A man was running along the main streets stabbing people,” Tass reported, citing the spokesman for the local office of the Russian law enforcement committee. Surgut is 2,100km (1,330 miles) north-east of Moscow in the oil-rich Khanty-Mansi region. Four of the wounded were in serious condition, according to Tass , which cited regional health official Vladislav Nigmatulin. The Surgut stabbing comes after an 18-year-old Moroccan national was arrested in Finland suspected of killing two people in a knife attack in the city of Turku on Friday.

Source: The Guardian August 19, 2017 09:40 UTC