Finnish police have confirmed they have found the body of a gunman(Ibrahim Shkupolli)responsible for killing five people in a shooting rampage in the southern city of Espoo.
Investigators said 43-year-old Ibrahim Shkupolli shot dead three men and a woman with a 9mm pistol at a grocery shop inside the Sello shopping centre.
The body of Shkupolli's ex-girlfriend, who also worked at the shop, was later found dead at a flat in the city.
The incident is Finland's third major shooting in the past two years.
Police were first notified about the shooting inside the Prisma grocery store at 1008 local time (0808 GMT) on Thursday.
A witness told Finland's state broadcaster, YLE, that the gunman was dressed in black and appeared to have opened fire at random, hitting one man in the head and a woman in the stomach.
The victims were Prisma employees aged 27, 40, 42 and 45. Two were shot on the shop's first floor, the other two on its second floor, police said.
Another witness said chaos had ensued after the first shots were heard.
"There were loads of people who were crying, and many salespeople who were completely panicked," the witness told Finnish radio.
The gunman was later seen walking towards another shop. He then disappeared, sparking a major manhunt. The shopping centre was evacuated and cordoned off by armed police, and trains were not allowed to stop at the nearby Leppavaara railway station.
BBC News - Gunman's body found after Finland shootings

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