© Reuters. An arrow left in a wall is seen after a number of individuals have been killed and others have been injured by a person utilizing a bow and arrows to hold out assaults, in Kongsberg, Norway, October 13, 2021. Terje Bendiksby/NTB/through REUTERS
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OSLO (Reuters) -A 37-year-old Danish citizen is suspected of killing 5 individuals in a bow-and-arrow assault within the Norwegian city of Kongsberg in a uncommon incident of mass killing in Norway, police mentioned on Thursday.
Two individuals, together with an off-duty police officer, have been wounded within the Wednesday night assaults https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/man-kills-several-people-norway-bow-arrow-attacks-police-say-2021-10-13, which happened in numerous areas within the city, 68 km (42 miles) southwest of the capital, Oslo.
“The police are giving this info due to all of the rumours on social media relating to people who find themselves not linked to those very severe acts,” police mentioned in an announcement wherein they gave the suspect’s nationality however didn’t identification.
The suspect, who was apprehended, was believed to have been performing alone, police mentioned.
They mentioned nothing a few potential motive.
The demise toll was the worst of any assault in Norway since 2011, when far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 individuals, most of them youngsters at a youth camp.
The assaults went on for greater than half an hour over a “giant space” of Kongsberg, together with at a Coop Further grocery retailer, the Aftenposten newspaper cited police as saying.
A lady dwelling close to the shop mentioned she had heard alarms as she was strolling residence.
“I noticed a gaggle of cops, together with one who held a number of arrows in his hand,” the lady, Marit Hoefle, instructed newspaper
Investigators are contemplating whether or not the assaults amounted to an act of terrorism, and mentioned they might give a extra detailed account of the incident afterward Thursday.
Police have been interrogating the suspect and he was cooperating, his defence lawyer mentioned.
“He’s cooperating and is giving detailed statements relating to this occasion,” lawyer Fredrik Neumann instructed public broadcaster NRK.
A bow and arrow had been utilized in no less than a number of of the assaults, police mentioned, including they have been investigating whether or not one other weapon was used.
Photographs from one of many crime scenes confirmed an arrow that seemed to be caught within the wall of a wood-panelled constructing.
About 28,000 individuals dwell within the Kongsberg municipality.
Following the assaults, the police directorate mentioned it had ordered officers nationwide to hold firearms. Norwegian police are usually unarmed however officers have entry to weapons when wanted.
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