A male student stabbed three girls under the age of 15 at a school in Finland on Tuesday, after distributing a manifesto saying he wanted to attack girls, police said.
The girls did not sustain life-threatening injuries and the suspect was arrested shortly after the attack in Pirkkala, southwest Finland, police superintendent Jari Kinnunen told reporters.
He would not comment on the attacker's motive, but said police had "no reason to doubt" he was the author of a manifesto sent to several media outlets.
"There are indications in the manifesto that there is a deliberate selection of girls or women," Kinnunen said, adding that the injured girls were "understood to be from the same school". Police would not comment on whether the suspect knew his victims or how he selected them.
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