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Recalling the Turku Market Square attack

20/08/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Recalling the Turku Market Square attack

British man who tried to save one of the victims talks about his ordeal

British paramedic, Hassan Zubier, speaks to the BBC from his hospital bed about how he tried to save the life of a victim of Friday’s knife attack in Turku, Finland, which left two dead and eight injured, including Hassan himself.  

Also in the programme: The music of Randy Newman; India’s first all-female navy crew.

(Image: Candles and flowers at a memorial for the victims of Friday's stabbings at the Turku Market Square, Finland on 19th August 2017. Credit: Vesa Moilanen/AFP/Getty Images)

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