{"id":131773,"date":"2026-07-19T13:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/131773\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T13:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:12:23","slug":"elderly-woman-stabbed-to-death-in-helsinki-suspect-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/131773\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly woman stabbed to death in Helsinki, suspect held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">An elderly woman was killed when a man attacked her with sharp weapon in front of Kontula metro station in Helsinki on Saturday, police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">The incident took place at about 11:23 a.m. when the victim in her 80s sustained severe wounds in the knife attack and succumbed to her injuries on the spot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">Responding to an alarm police and rescue service people rushed to the spot and recovered the body of the victim. <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">The attacker, a man of 50 years old, however, fled away after the stabbing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">Police conducted extensive search at the area and arrested the suspect immediately.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">Police, however, did not divulge details about the incident and the identities of the deceased and the suspect at the initial stage of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">They said that the victim and the attacker were not known to each other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">They are investigating into the case as murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An elderly woman was killed when a man attacked her with sharp weapon in front of Kontula metro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[87],"tags":[6692,6690,6671,6657,6669,6655,6635,649,6678,3208,6639,6681,6637,4625,6699,6676,307,2766,6688,6697,6647,6703,6645,6706,6695,6622,6621,4029,158,6642,6646,6684,6643,1958,3928,6644,6662,6640,113,6652,6641,6648,6668,1187,5638,5246,6674,6673,6654,6629,6670,6659,6665,6667,6687,6628,6658,6682,6685,6630,6694,6666,6677,6698,4694,306,6620,6664,6701,4559,6702,6636,6686,6700,6704,6625,3926,6633,6634,6680,6632,6626,6653,4177,6631,1884,305,6705,6651,6693,3485,6638,6707,6696,6689,6660,6683,6656,6619,132,6623,6691,6679,6011,6624,6672,6649,6627,6663,6650,6661,6675],"class_list":["post-131773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-helsinki","tag-100-years-of-independence","tag-7-up","tag-aamulehti","tag-alexandar-stubb","tag-anne-barner","tag-antti-rinne","tag-arcktikum","tag-arctic","tag-arctic-business-forum","tag-arctic-circle","tag-arctic-light-hotel","tag-asylum-seekers","tag-aurora-borealis","tag-baltic-sea","tag-bus","tag-business-oulu","tag-centre-party","tag-christmas","tag-cococola","tag-cumlus-hotel","tag-daily-finland","tag-denmark-nordea-bank","tag-df","tag-dunsken-bank","tag-easter-holiday","tag-english-language-news-from-finland","tag-english-news-from-finland","tag-finavia","tag-finland","tag-finland-times","tag-finland-today","tag-finlandia","tag-finlandtimes","tag-finnair","tag-finnish-government","tag-ftimes","tag-green-league","tag-helsingin-sanomat","tag-helsinki","tag-helsinki-airport","tag-helsinki-times","tag-helsinki-university","tag-hridi-hautala","tag-ice","tag-ice-hockey","tag-ikea","tag-ilta-lehti","tag-ilta-sanomat","tag-juha-sipila","tag-jyvaskyla","tag-kaleva","tag-kansallinen-kokoomus","tag-kemi","tag-kittila","tag-koff","tag-kokkola","tag-kokoomus","tag-lapin-kansa","tag-lapin-kulta","tag-lapland","tag-lapland-hotels","tag-levi","tag-malmi","tag-metro","tag-microsoft","tag-national-coalition-party","tag-news-from-finland","tag-nokia","tag-norden","tag-nordic","tag-norsen","tag-northern-light","tag-olvi","tag-onnibus","tag-op-bank","tag-oulu","tag-petteri-orpo","tag-poro","tag-porocup","tag-refugees","tag-rendeer","tag-rovaniemi","tag-rovaniemi-airport","tag-santa","tag-santa-claus","tag-sauli-niinisto","tag-sdp","tag-shampoo-bank","tag-silja-lines","tag-ski-holiday","tag-snow","tag-snow-hotel","tag-snowmobile","tag-sokos-hotel","tag-sprite","tag-suomen-keskusta","tag-suomen-kuvalehti","tag-suomen-sosialidemokraattinen-puolue","tag-suomi","tag-sweden","tag-tampere","tag-tom-of-finland","tag-tornio","tag-tram","tag-turku","tag-turun-sanomat","tag-university-of-finland","tag-vaasa","tag-vihrea-liitto","tag-viking-lines","tag-ville-matti-niinisto","tag-yle"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}