The suspect in last week's stabbing attack in Finland that left two people dead and eight injured was identified in court documents on Monday as 18-year-old Abderrahman Mechkah.

Police have previously described the suspect as an asylum seeker from Morocco who deliberately targeted women in a stabbing spree on a market square in the southwestern town of Turku, in what is being investigated as the country's first terror attack.

The Turku court documents did not specify his nationality.