Portugal: 2 dead in stabbing at Lisbon Muslim center

A man stabbed two women to death at Lison's Ismaili Muslim center in a "criminal act," Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa said on Tuesday.

"The attack left several people wounded and, for the moment, two dead," said the police.

The two women who died were employees of the center aged 40 and 20, according to Interior Minister Jose Luis Carneiro.

The assailant was an Afghan whose wife died "in difficult circumstances" at a refugee camp in Greece before them moving to Portugal.

He has three children and seemed to live "a fairly quiet life" in the country, Carneiro said.