bloodrayne
04-25-2004, 09:33 AM
Man attacks metro passenger with an axe; victim in critical condition
Perpetrator caught at next station
A savage and apparently random attack took place on a Wednesday morning metro train travelling eastbound from Central Helsinki to Mellunmäki. A male passenger hit another man several times in the head with an axe. The victim was taken to a hospital in a critical condition.
According to the police the 36-year-old perpetrator from Helsinki did not know his 23-year-old victim, also a Helsinki resident.
The attack happened at 10.20 in the third carriage of a metro train. Just before the Kulosaari station the assailant walked behind the victim who was sitting alone at the rear end of the carriage and reading a newspaper. The assailant revealed a long-handled axe under his grey leather coat and hit the victim unexpectedly three times in the back of the head.
The assailant never threatened other passengers who were sitting at the front of the carriage, and he did not resist the police who arrested him at the Kulosaari station. According to eyewitnesses he seemed to understand what he had done.
The arrested man is said to have confessed the attack. Previously he has been convicted of crimes against property. In February 2003 it was established that he had been of unsound mind when committing these crimes.
Perpetrator caught at next station
A savage and apparently random attack took place on a Wednesday morning metro train travelling eastbound from Central Helsinki to Mellunmäki. A male passenger hit another man several times in the head with an axe. The victim was taken to a hospital in a critical condition.
According to the police the 36-year-old perpetrator from Helsinki did not know his 23-year-old victim, also a Helsinki resident.
The attack happened at 10.20 in the third carriage of a metro train. Just before the Kulosaari station the assailant walked behind the victim who was sitting alone at the rear end of the carriage and reading a newspaper. The assailant revealed a long-handled axe under his grey leather coat and hit the victim unexpectedly three times in the back of the head.
The assailant never threatened other passengers who were sitting at the front of the carriage, and he did not resist the police who arrested him at the Kulosaari station. According to eyewitnesses he seemed to understand what he had done.
The arrested man is said to have confessed the attack. Previously he has been convicted of crimes against property. In February 2003 it was established that he had been of unsound mind when committing these crimes.