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Kongsberg: Bow and arrow suspect known to Norway police
A man arrested over a deadly bow and arrow attack in Norway had converted to Islam and there were fears he had been radicalised, police say.
The 37-year-old Danish citizen is accused of killing four women and a man on Wednesday night in the southern town of Kongsberg.
Police were in contact with the man last year over their concerns.
The suspect has not been identified, and police are working to establish whether it was a terror attack.
Meanwhile, flags were flown at half-mast on Thursday while flowers and other memorials were placed in Kongsberg’s main square.
The victims were all aged between 50 and 70, regional police chief Ole Bredrup Saeverud told reporters.
Residents have told local media that the close-knit community has been deeply shaken by the violence.
Police confronted the man six minutes after the attack began at 18:12 (16:12 GMT) on Wednesday, but he shot several arrows at the officers and escaped. He was caught at 18:47 – 35 minutes after the attack started.
All five victims are believed to have been killed after the police first encountered the man. Officers fired warning shots before he was eventually arrested.
Man armed with bow and arrow kills five people in Norway attacks
OSLO, Oct 13 (Reuters) – A man armed with a bow and arrow killed five people and wounded two others in a series of attacks in the Norwegian town of Kongsberg on Wednesday, local police said.
The suspect was in custody, police added.
“The man used a bow and arrow … for some of the attacks,” police chief Oeyvind Aas told reporters. The police were investigating whether other weapons had also been used, he said.
“The man has been apprehended … from the information we now have, this person carried out these actions alone,” Aas added.
One of the wounded people was an off-duty police officer.
Newspaper VG showed images of an arrow that appeared to be stuck in the wall of a wood-paneled building.
The death toll was the worst of any attack in Norway since 2011, when far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people, most of them teenagers at a youth camp
The attacks on Wednesday took place over “a large area” of Kongsberg, a municipality of about 28,000 people in southeastern Norway, 68 km (42 miles) from the capital, Oslo.
The government said police had launched a large investigation.
“The reports coming from Kongsberg tonight are horrifying,” Prime Minister Erna Solberg told a news conference.
“I understand that many people are afraid, but it’s important to emphasise that the police are now in control,” she said.
Following the attacks, the police directorate said it had ordered officers nationwide to carry firearms. Norwegian police are normally unarmed but officers have access to guns and rifles when needed.
“This is an extra precaution. The police have no indication so far that there is a change in the national threat level,” the directorate said in a statement.
Aas said police would investigate whether the attack amounted to an act of terrorism.