Two men arrested for killing a 20-year-old woman in Pietarsaari

Photo: Helsinki Police Department.
The crime was committed on Sunday inside the victim's apartment with a firearm, informed the police.

Police arrested two men suspected of being involved in an incident on Sunday that ended with one young woman killed in Pietarsaari (Ostrobothnia, north west Finland).

According to police information, the victim, born in 1999, was killed with a firearm inside her apartment, located in Isokatu 17, in downtown Pietarsaari.

A preliminary investigation into the facts has been initiated. The two men arrested are locals born in 1985 and 1971 and, according to police, both were inside the victim's apartment at the time of the crime.

Investigations are still ongoing, even at the crime scene. Police say that for investigative reasons they cannot, at this stage, publish more information.