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Finnish pair on trial in university attack plot

By Matti Huuhtanen
Published May 26, 2014 2:41pm ET
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Finnish pair on trial in university attack plot
An unidentified man, bows his head, at a court hearing, in Helsinki, Finland, Monday, May 26, 2014. A man and a woman are being tried for planning an attack at the University of Helsinki with the aim of killing several people and for possessing weapons to carry out the slaughter. The case opened Monday at Helsinki District Court against the suspects, who were not named. They were not students at the university. (AP Photo/Lehtikuva, Antti Aimo-Koivisto) FINLAND OUT | Antti Aimo-Koivisto

HELSINKI (AP) — A man and woman arrested for allegedly plotting an attack at Finland’s biggest university were planning to kill dozens of people at random, prosecutors said Monday at the start of their trial.

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