Woman stabbed to death in Helsinki, suspect held

One young woman was killed when a man attacked her with a sharp weapon inside a fast food chain McDonald's at Pitäjänmäki area in Helsinki late Saturday night, police said on Sunday morning.

The incident took place at about 10:15 pm when the 30-year old man stabbed the 22-year old woman with a knife repeatedly in front of the employees and customers of the shop and fled the scene by a taxi.

The woman sustained several injuries at different parts of her body and succumbed to her wounds on the spot immediately.

Responding to an alarm, police rushed to the spot and recovered the body from there.

They also conducted extensive search at the adjacent areas and arrested the suspect from Helsinki area before midnight.

Police said that both the victim and the attacker were known to each other but did not divulge their detail identities and relation between them.

The reason behind the incident could not be known immediately.

The police are investigating into the incident as murder.