Bow-and-Arrow Attack in Norway Leaves at Least Five Dead, Two Injured

A gentleman suspected of getting the attacker has been arrested, and police are investigating his motive, in accordance to Police Main Øyvind Aas.

The two hurt persons, 1 of whom is an off-responsibility police officer who occurred to be at the grocery store at the time of the assault, are getting treated at a close by clinic, Mr. Aas claimed. The suspect acted alone and hasn’t yet been questioned, he included.

“It is normal to think about whether it is an act of terrorism [but] it is far too early to make any conclusions,” Mr. Aas claimed in a televised information conference.

He claimed the suspect was arrested about 30 minutes soon after police gained the to start with report of the assault. Officers who manufactured the arrest fired warning shots before apprehending the suspect, Mr. Aas claimed.

“We have been shaken by this incident…the reviews coming in are ugly,” Norway’s key minister,

Erna Solberg,

claimed Wednesday night.

Components of Kongsberg, a ski vacation resort, ended up cordoned off by police, and a tactical device specializing in terrorist assaults and hostage conditions was deployed. Helicopters circled earlier mentioned the city and dozens of ambulances ended up observed at what police claimed ended up numerous crime scenes.

Nearby media broadcast pictures of arrows embedded in walls of properties or lying on the pavement exactly where the assault unfolded.

Police officers across the nation, who are usually unarmed, ended up purchased to have guns when on responsibility soon after the assault. A police spokesman claimed the evaluate was a precaution and not a final result of any intelligence about heightened hazard ranges.

Norway has restrictive gun-ownership legal guidelines that ban non-public possession of computerized weapons, but hunters and activity shooters are permitted to personal specific sorts of handguns and rifles if they get a firearms license, which calls for a thoroughly clean police file.

Norway, 1 of the world’s most affluent and small-crime nations around the world, has been hit by mass shootings in the new earlier. In 2019, a gunman opened fire in a mosque in the vicinity of Oslo but no 1 was hurt simply because worshipers speedily overpowered the gentleman.

In 2011, significantly-ideal extremist

Anders Behring Breivik

killed seventy seven persons in and about Oslo, most of them teenage attendees of a summertime camp structured by a center-remaining social gathering.

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