A man armed with a arc and arrows killed five people Wednesday near the Norwegian capital of Oslo before he was arrested, authorities said.
The police chief in the city of Kongsberg said there was “ a battle” between officers and the bushwhacker, but he didn’t unfold. Two other people were wounded and hospitalised in ferocious care, including an officer who was off duty and inside the shop where the attack took place, police said “ The man who carried out the act has been arrested by the police, and there’s no active hunt for further people. Grounded on the information we have, there’s one person behind this,” Police Chief Oeying Aas said.
Amusement Prime Minister Erna Solberg described the attack as “ horrible” and said it was too early to presume on the man’s motive. The Prime Minister-designate, Jonas Gahr Stoere, who’s anticipated to take office Thursday, called the assault “ a cruel and brutal act” in commentary to Norwegian news agency NTB Police were advised to the attack around 630p.m. and arrested the suspect about 20 twinkles latterly. The community is 66 kilometers (41 country miles) southwest of Oslo According to police, the suspect walked around the megacity firing at people with arrows The man has not been questioned yet,Mr. Aas said.
Megacity officers invited people who were affected by the attack and their cousins to gather for support at a original hostel The attack comes over a decade after Anders Behring Breivik, a right- sect revolutionist, set off a lemon in Oslo’s government quarter and also carried out a firing butchery at the summer camp of the left- sect Labor Party’s youth organisation on Utoya islet. The violence on July 22, 2011, killed 77 people and stunned Norway Breivik was doomed to 21 times in captivity, the outside under Norwegian law, but his term can be extended as long as he’s considered a peril to society.