Up to seven people were injured when a car plowed into a crowd in the eastern part Helsinki, Finland’s capital. Police say that nothing indicates the incident was intentional, however.

No one was killed in the collision, but at least three people were taken to hospitals in critical condition, Finnish media report, citing police sources. At the same time, Helsinki’s rescue services department said that two women and one man were seriously injured, while another man received light injuries, Finnish M TV Channel reports.

The mishap reportedly occurred when a car driving at high speed veered onto the sidewalk, hitting parked vehicles and pedestrians. An eyewitness told Finnish Ilta Sanomat media outlet that the driver was apparently speeding and lost control of the car, sending it careening into the crowd.

Police don’t believe the incident to be a deliberate attack. “There is nothing at the moment to suggest that this act was intentional,” Henri Helminen, a spokesman of the Helsinki Police Department, told journalists.

The driver has been detained. The incident took place near the Siilitie metro station in the northern part of the Helsinki’s eastern Herttoniemi district.

Police have cordoned off the area near the station, but the station itself is still operating as normal, Finnish media report.

The incident came just weeks after a truck plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and leaving 48 injured. The main suspect, Tunisian asylum seeker Anis Amri, was later shot dead in a chance encounter with police in Italy. Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL) has claimed responsibility for the Berlin attack. </s> Up to seven people were injured after a car ploughed into a crowd in Helsinki, Finland this morning.

Three were said to be in critical condition after the car drove through a crowd near a metro station on the outskirts of the city, Finnish media reported

According to local reports, the car veered on to the sidewalk, hitting a number of parked vehicles as well as at least three pedestrians.

Police say there is no indication that the incident was intentional and believe it to have been an accident.

A representative of the Helsinki Police Department said: ‘There is nothing at the moment to suggest that this act was intentional.’

A 30-year-old male was detained and taken into custody for questioning.

He is believed to have suffered a medical emergency that caused him to lose control of the car, reports suggested. </s> Three people have been critically injured and several others less severely after a car mounted the pavement in Helsinki, Finland.

The incident, which police say was not deliberate, took place outside a subway station in the eastern part of Finland’s capital. Witnesses saw an Estonian-registered Silver Volvo estate driving at speed before mounting the pavement and hitting several other cars before coming to a stop, reports Finnish newspaper Ilta Sanomat.

A police spokesman told the newspaper “there is nothing presently to suggest the act was intentional”, and that the driver had been taken into custody.

Approximately 10 emergency appliances including fire engines and ambulances attended the scene. An eyewitness told media some of those injured appeared to be in very bad condition.

The crash comes amid heightened concern in Europe over vehicles being used as an attack vector by Islamist killers. 2016 saw the Islamist attacks at the Berlin Christmas market in December and the national day attacks in Nice, France in July. Between the two attacks, 99 were killed.

2016 has also seen the trial of Bosnian Muslim Alen Rizvanović, who drove his car through the central shopping district of Graz, Austria in 2015, killing four. Despite evidence to the contrary, the incident was widely reported as a traffic accident in Austrian media. </s> Up to seven people were injured when a car plowed into a crowd in the eastern part Helsinki, Finland's capital., however.No one was killed in the collision, but at least three people were taken to hospitals in critical condition, Finnish media report, citing police sources. At the same time, Helsinki's rescue services department said that two women and one man were seriously injured, while another man received light injuries, Finnish M TV Channel reports.Police don't believe the incident to be a deliberate attack. "There is nothing at the moment to suggest that this act was intentional," Henri Helminen, a spokesman of the Helsinki Police Department, told journalists.The driver has been detained. The incident took place near the Siilitie metro station in the northern part of the Helsinki's eastern Herttoniemi district.Police have cordoned off the area near the station, but the station itself is still operating as normal, Finnish media report.The incident came just weeks after a truck plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and leaving 48 injured. The main suspect, Tunisian asylum seeker Anis Amri, was later shot dead in a chance encounter with police in Italy. Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL) has claimed responsibility for the Berlin attack. </s> Up to seven people were injured when a car plowed into a crowd in the eastern part Helsinki, Finland’s capital. Police say that nothing indicates the incident was intentional, however.

No one was killed in the collision, but at least three people were taken to hospitals in critical condition, Finnish media report, citing police sources. At the same time, Helsinki’s rescue services department said that two women and one man were seriously injured, while another man received light injuries, Finnish M TV Channel reports. </s> Three people have been critically injured and several others less severely after a car mounted the pavement in Helsinki, Finland. The incident, which police say was not deliberate, took place outside a subway station in the eastern part of Finland's capital.

Start the conversation, or Read more at Breitbart.com. </s> 4 killed when bus plunges onto train tracks in Finland

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A bus plunged about 10 meters (33 feet) from a bridge onto railway tracks in central Finland Friday, killing four people and injuring more than 20, two of them seriously, police said.

The bus smashed into five cars stopped at a red light in the city of Kuopio before going off the edge and falling onto the line, police spokesman Miika Mutanen told The Associated Press. Photos showed the white bus on its side on the tracks with the bridge rail broken.

"We spoke briefly to the bus driver who told us he wanted to brake but they didn't work and that he tried to avoid" other vehicles, Mutanen said.

There was no train on the tracks at the time of the accident at around 3 p.m.

Authorities told a news conference that the bus was headed south to the city of Jyvaskyla and was driving up a highway ramp. It continued straight ahead and plunged onto the railway tracks on the opposite side of the ramp.

Mutanen said two people were seriously injured and 20 others were brought to the hospital in Kuopio, some 350 kilometers (220 miles) northeast of Helsinki, with minor injuries.

Mutanen said it was not immediately clear who was traveling on the bus which belonged to the Kemin Liikenne company. Finnish broadcaster YLE said there were no children among the victims.

Finnish railway operator VR said that all train traffic on the stretch had been halted and passengers were being transported by bus instead.

Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila tweeted "sad news from Kuopio," and expressed his condolences to the victims. </s> HELSINKI, Finland — Finnish police are now investigating a stabbing spree in Finland that left two people dead as a terrorist attack, police said Saturday, identifying the suspect as an 18-year-old Moroccan citizen.

“The act had been investigated as murder, but during the night we received additional information which indicates that the criminal offenses are now terrorist killings,” police said in a statement.

The suspect’s “identity is known to the police. He is an 18-year-old Moroccan citizen,” it said.

Police arrested five people in a Turku apartment overnight in their investigation into a stabbing rampage that left two people dead, they said.

Police shot and wounded a knife-wielding suspect on Friday, arresting him minutes after an afternoon stabbing spree at a Turku market square. Police on Saturday raised the number of injured in the attack from six to eight.

“There was a raid and we have now six suspects in custody, the main suspect and five others,” detective superintendent Markus Laine of the National Bureau of investigation told AFP.

“We are investigating the role of these five other people but we are not sure yet if they had anything to do with (the attack)… We will interrogate them, after that we can tell you more. But they had been in contact with the main suspect,” Laine said.

The suspect is being treated in hospital in intensive care for a gunshot wound to the thigh.

Media reports in Finland said police believed the suspect had picked his victims at random, but Laine could not confirm that.

Police have said it was likely the suspect acted alone, but added they were looking for “other possible perpetrators.”

Central Turku was swiftly cordoned off after the attack, which occurred just after 4:00 p.m. (1300 GMT), although the area was reopened several hours later.

Finland also raised its emergency readiness across the country after the stabbing, increasing security at airports and train stations and putting more officers on the streets.

In June, Finland’s intelligence and security agency Supo raised the country’s terror threat level by a notch, from “low” to “elevated”, the second notch on a four-tier scale.

It said at the time it saw an increased risk of an attack committed by the the so-called Islamic State (IS) group. </s> Police have confirmed that a French National of North African origin has been arrested and detained after driving at “high speed” and attempting to plow into a large crowd of people in Antwerp, Belgium. Francois Hollande, France’s president, has acknowledged to reporters that it is believed a French National was involved in the events in Antwerp.

The 39-year-old suspect, who has been identified by police as Mohamed R., was driving a maroon vehicle with what are believed to be French number plates. The suspect ran straight through a red light and then attempted to drive into a crowd of people nearby who were busy shopping in a pedestrianized Antwerp neighborhood.

After the terror suspect had been apprehended, police found a shotgun and knives inside the man’s vehicle, as well as a can containing some kind of as yet unknown liquid, as the Metro reported. A statement from prosecutors in Belgium lists different kinds of arms that were “found in the boot – bladed weapons, a riot gun and a container of liquid that is still unidentifiable.”

Police say that after the man was initially unsuccessful at mowing down pedestrians, he kept driving at a high rate of speed and repeatedly tried to hit people that were in the pedestrian streets of Antwerp, Belgium.

The BBC reported that Antwerp police chief Serge Muyters said the car involved in this attack was discovered at around 11 a.m (10:00 GMT).

Another police source explained that the car was stopped and the driver apprehended after hitting a red light.

Immediately after the incident took place, images in Antwerp, Belgium began to appear all over social media, and some of them showed the scene unfolding as the police, military personnel, and a bomb squad arrived to apprehend the terror suspect. As soon as the driver of the car was stopped in Antwerp, Belgium, he was immediately detained and later arrested.

It is not currently known if any bystanders sustained serious injuries, but those who witnessed the incident report that pedestrians were forced to jump out of the way as the driver of the vehicle kept increasing his speed in order to hit people.

Police have now raised the level of security in the centers of towns, as well as other places where a large number of people could be gathering in Antwerp, Belgium, such as shopping districts.

The terror event in Antwerp, Belgium occurred exactly one year and one day after the attack in Brussels, which left 32 people dead on March 22, 2016. This event happened after Islamic State suicide bombers attacked a metro station, as well as the city’s airport. The same people who were responsible for last year’s Belgium attack were also the perpetrators of the attack in Paris, which left 130 people dead in November of 2015.

This pedestrian attack in Antwerp, Belgium comes directly on the heels of the recent attack in London.
In Helsinki, Finland, authorities detain an unidentified driver after driving at high speed, and veering for unknown reasons, into a crowd, injuring 7 people. Authorities quickly conclude no evidence points to a deliberate attack.