Finnish police said on Friday the person arrested on suspicion of stabbing and injuring four people near a shopping mall in Tampere on Thursday is a 23-year-old Finnish man with a previous criminal history.

Finnish police say a stabbing attack that wounded four people outside a mall in Finland isn't believed to be a terror or racist attack.

Four people were stabbed near the Ratina shopping centre in Tampere on Thursday. Police have detained one suspect and ruled out terrorist or racist motives. The incident, which caused major disruption in the city centre,