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Four women and a man were killed and two others wounded when a man used a bow and arrow to attack them in Norway.

Police first received word of an attack in the town of Kongsberg, south-west of the capital Oslo, at 18:12 local time (16:12 GMT).

A Danish man aged 37 has been arrested and questioned for hours overnight.

Police said they had previously been in contact with him over fears of radicalisation after he converted to Islam.

The victims were all aged between 50 and 70, regional police chief Ole Bredrup Saeverud told reporters on Thursday morning.

He said they were most likely killed after the police first confronted the attacker at 18:18.

Reports of the incident were "horrifying", said Prime Minister Erna Solberg, hours before she was due to leave office.

"I understand that many people are afraid, but it's important to emphasise that the police are now in control," she said.

The attacker is said to have launched the assault inside a Coop Extra supermarket on Kongsberg's west side. One of those injured was an off-duty police officer who was in the shop at the time.

A spokesperson for the chain later confirmed a "serious incident" at their store, adding that none of their staff were physically injured.

Local police chief Oyvind Aas confirmed that the attacker had managed to escape an initial confrontation with police before an arrest was finally made at 18:47 local time, 35 minutes after the attack began.

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One witness told local outlet TV2 she had heard a commotion and seen a woman taking cover, then a "man standing on the corner with arrows in a quiver on his shoulder and a bow in his hand".

"Afterwards, I saw people running for their lives. One of them was a woman holding a child by the hand," she added.

Police have told Norwegian news agency NTB that the attacker also used other weapons during the incident, without giving more details on what they were.

The suspect moved over a large area, and authorities cordoned off several parts of the town. Residents were ordered to stay indoors so authorities could examine the scene and gather evidence. Surrounding gardens and garages were searched with the help of sniffer dogs.

The attack was Norway's deadliest since far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 people, most of them at a children's Labour Party summer camp on the island of Utoya in July 2011.

'Completely inconceivable'
Kongsberg Mayor Kari Anne Sand said it was a shocking attack that had taken place in an area where many people lived, and that a crisis team would help anyone affected.

Describing the town as "a completely ordinary community with completely ordinary people", Ms Sand said everyone had been deeply shaken by "this very tragic situation."

The suspect was taken to a police station in the town of Drammen, where his defence lawyer, Fredrik Neumann, said he was questioned for more than three hours and was co-operating with authorities.

The suspect had a Danish mother and Norwegian father, he explained.

Norway's outgoing justice minister Monica Maeland told reporters the police did not yet know whether or not it was act of terrorism and could not comment on details emerging about the suspect.

Police prosecutor Ann Irén Svane Mathiassen told TV2 that the man had lived in Kongsberg for several years and was known to police.

The attack came on the final day of Erna Solberg's conservative government, and a new justice minister takes over the case on Thursday under a centre-left coalition led by Labour leader Jonas Gahr Store.

Mr Store said it was a "gruesome and brutal act", hours before announcing his new cabinet.

Norwegian police are not usually armed and after the attack the police directorate ordered all officers nationwide to carry firearms as an extra precaution.

Police were searching the Huseby area of north-western Oslo on Thursday following reports of a man being seen carrying a bow and arrow. Police stressed no-one had been hurt and there was no threat.

"The police have no indication so far that there is a change in the national threat level," the directorate said in a statement (in Norwegian).

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58906165
 
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A Danish convert to Islam has been charged in Norway with killing five people and injuring three in a bow-and-arrow attack that “appears . . . to be an act of terrorism”, the country’s intelligence service said on Thursday.

Norwegian police in Kongsberg — a town 70km west of the capital Oslo — said Espen Andersen Braathen, a 37-year-old Danish citizen, was arrested on Wednesday evening and charged overnight.

The man was a convert to Islam who had previously been reported to police over fears he had been radicalised, police said. There was no indication anybody else was involved, they added.

Norway’s police intelligence service said on Thursday that the assault “appears at the moment to be an act of terrorism” but that the investigation would reveal the full motive.

The arrested man, who lives in Norway, was reported to police several times in 2020 over concerns he had been radicalised after his conversion to Islam. Officers had followed up each time and no new complaint had been registered this year, Ole Saeverud, the local police chief, said on Thursday morning.

Norway has suffered several acts of terrorism by rightwing extremists in recent years, including a 2011 attack on the then ruling Labour party’s youth camp and government buildings in Oslo that killed 77 people. But unlike Scandinavian neighbours Sweden and Denmark, the country of 5.4m people has never experienced a deadly Islamist terror attack.

Police said four women and one man — all aged between 50 and 70 — had died and two had been seriously injured, including an off-duty policeman.

Saeverud said police had first seen the suspect within minutes of receiving the first call about the attack but that officers had lost contact with him. Some of the killings, and probably all of them, occurred in the 30 minutes before police found him again. They arrested him after firing warning shots, Saeverud added.

During the attack, the suspect moved around several locations in the university town of 28,000 — which is also home to Norway’s biggest defence contractor — including a Co-op supermarket. Police said that the man had used other weapons in addition to a bow and arrow and added that he had co-operated with them in an interview overnight.

The news of the attack came as Norway changed government on Thursday, with centre-left Labour leader Jonas Gahr Store taking over as prime minister.

“It is horrible what has been revealed. It is shocking to think about what people have experienced,” Store said on Thursday as he presented his new government, which includes two survivors of the 2011 attacks.

Outgoing centre-right prime minister Erna Solberg said on Wednesday night: “The news is gruesome. These events shake us. I understand that many are afraid. That is why it’s important to emphasise that police are in control.”

Norwegian police on Wednesday evening issued a temporary order for officers to carry weapons nationwide after the attack but said there was no specific threat. Saeverud said they based their belief that he acted alone on the events and their prior knowledge of the man charged

https://www.ft.com/content/c359442d-328a-44e7-856e-d5dad656b08e
 
Where is the evidence that he had converted to Islam? Total bakwas! The western press always plays this game when such incidents occur.
 
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A bow-and-arrow attack that killed five people in Norway this week is likely to have been due to the killer's mental illness, police say.

Espen Andersen Brathen has admitted going on a killing spree in the small town of Kongsberg on Wednesday.

It was the worst attack in Norway since far-right extremist Anders Breivik massacred 77 people a decade ago.

The suspect, a Danish Muslim convert, is now in custody in a medical facility pending a psychiatric evaluation.

"The strongest hypothesis after the first days of the investigation is that illness is in the background," said police inspector Per Thomas Omholt.

However, police are investigating a range of motives including "anger, revenge, impulse, jihad, illness and provocation", Mr Omholt said.

He added that Brathen had admitted to the killings but did not admit guilt.

A full psychiatric evaluation is necessary to determine whether Brathen can be held legally responsible for his actions. This could take several months.

"This indicates that things are not exactly as they should be," said his lawyer, Fredrik Neumann, referring to his client's mental health.

"A complete judicial assessment will clarify that," he told Norwegian daily VG.

The head of Norway's PST intelligence service, Hans Sverre Sjovold, said Brathen had been in and out of Norway's healthcare system "for some time".

Brathan was known to PST, which is in charge of Norway's anti-terrorism efforts, but it is as yet unclear why.

"There were fears linked to radicalisation previously," police official Ole Bredrup Saeverud told reporters.

Five people were killed and three others injured, including an off-duty police officer, in Kongsberg, which is about 80km (49 miles) south-west of the capital, Oslo.

Police first received a report of a man shooting at people with a bow and arrows at 18:12 local time (16:12 GMT) on Wednesday. Shortly afterwards, officers arrived on the scene.

The officers were then shot at with arrows before the attacker escaped. Attacks were subsequently reported in different locations.

Police have said the victims were most likely killed after officers first confronted the attacker.

The suspect was arrested at 18:45 - 35 minutes after the attack began. Warning shots were fired during the arrest, police said.

Norwegian media questioned why it took police more than half an hour to arrest the suspect after the first reports of an attack. Mr Saeverud said it had been a "confusing" situation.

BBC
 
Two people were killed and 14 wounded on Saturday in a shooting at a nightclub and in nearby streets in Norway's capital Oslo, police said.

A suspect believed to be the sole perpetrator was apprehended, police told reporters. The suspect was known to authorities, public broadcaster NRK reported, adding he was not cooperating with police.

The crime scene extended from the London Pub via a neighbouring club and onwards to a nearby street where the suspect was apprehended a few minutes after the shooting began in the early hours of Saturday, police spokesman Tore Barstad told newspaper Aftenposten.

The London Pub is a popular gay bar and nightclub in the centre of Oslo.

"I saw a man arrive with a bag, he picked up a gun and started to shoot," journalist Olav Roenneberg of public broadcaster NRK reported.

It was not immediately clear what the motive for the attack was.

Oslo is due to hold its annual Pride parade later on Saturday, just months after Norway marked 50 years since the abolition of a law that criminalised gay sex

The attack was a "terrible and deeply shocking attack on innocent people," Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said in a statement to Norwegian news agency NTB.

"We don't know yet know what is behind this terrible act, but to the queer people who are afraid and in mourning, I want to say that we stand together with you."

Two people were confirmed dead and some 14 people were taken to hospital, several with severe injuries, police said.

Photographs published by newspaper VG, broadcaster NRK and others showed a large gathering of emergency responders outside the London Pub, including police and ambulance workers.

Helicopters hovered above central Oslo while ambulance and police car sirens were heard across the city.

Oslo's university hospital said it had gone on red alert following the shooting.

Express Tribune
 
<b>A 42-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder and terrorist acts after a shooting in the centre of Norway's capital, Oslo.</b>

Two people were killed and 21 injured in the overnight attack on a busy nightlife district.
There was gunfire at about 01:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Saturday, in three locations including a gay bar.

Shots were fired at the London Pub, a popular LGBTQ+ venue, and near the Herr Nilsen jazz club and a pub.

Oslo's annual Pride parade was due to be held on Saturday, but has been cancelled following police advice.

"We will soon be proud and visible again, but today, we will share our Pride celebrations from home," a statement on the Oslo Pride website said.

"There is reason to think that this may be a hate crime," police said in a press conference later on Saturday.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere called it a "terrible and deeply shocking attack on innocent people".
 
Non-Musliim - Lone Wolf/Mental Patient

Muslim - Terrorist.

Until the MSM and Western Government show balance and unbias, I will save my sympathies until then.
 
Norway mass shooting suspect 'radicalised Islamist' - as terror threat raised to highest level.

A suspected gunman charged over a deadly mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Norway's capital Oslo is believed to be a radicalised Islamist with a history of mental illness, according to the country's intelligence service.
 
This type of action doesn't help Islam's image and increases Islamophobia.

People shouldn't take matters into their own hands.
 
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