3 teens held for killing friend in Helsinki

Three 16-year-old boys allegedly killed another boy of 16 and dumped the body at an under-construction building in Koskela area of Helsinki on Friday, said the Helsinki police in a statement on Wednesday.

The body of the deceased was recovered from an under-construction building on Monday and the police also arrested the three suspects the same day.

The law-enforcers believe the murder took place in the evening of 4 December. Construction workers found the naked body in the under-construction building near Koskela Hospital in the morning of 7 December.

“Several marks of injuries were detected at different parts of the body of the victim, which we consider to be a brutal and cruel incident,” said Helsinki police Detective Inspector Marko Forss, adding that the police would not divulge the details in this regard at the initial stage of the investigation.

The police arrested the three suspects after getting information from a parent of one of them.

All the suspects left the scene immediately after the alleged killing, leaving the victim’s body there, said the inspector, adding that they might have been aware of the victim’s condition.

All the suspects, born in 2004 are Finnish by birth and they were celebrating the birthday of one of them, said the police, adding that they consumed alcohol during the celebration.

The motive of the murder could not be known.