© Lauri Heino / Lehtikuva via REUTERSPolice guards the area were three people were killed in a shooting incident at a restaurant in Imatra, Eastern Finland on December 4, 2016.
The killings took place near local Vuoksenvahti restaurant at midnight on Saturday, when a 23-year-old man with a rifle reportedly attacked three women, the chair of the town's city council, Tiina Wilén-Jäppinen, and two journalists, police said, as cited by Yle national broadcaster.
The shooter was immediately arrested near a parked car in front of the restaurant.
According to Yle reporter, the victims were "exiting the restaurant when they were fired upon." All received gunshot wounds to the head and torso.
Wilén-Jäppinen had represented the Social Democratic Party on the city council since 2001, local media said.
Imatra is a town in southeast Finland on the border with Russia with some 200,000 residents.
The motive of the killing remains unclear.
"At the moment, it looks like the victims were chosen at random," Detective Inspector Saku Tielinen said during a news conference.
The suspect wasn't known to police before the attack and specialists found no traces of alcohol in his blood, Tielinen added.
Any bets it's a 'recent immigrant'? (Pardon what appears to me to be a 'most likely' conclusion here, albeit that its facts are officially proclaimed 'politically incorrect' and/or 'racist,' etc.)
Is it 'racist to point out 'no go for police' areas?
To point out the three digit (and more) rates of increased violence?
If you claim so, please speak facts, not conclusory BS.
R.C.