Danish man held over deadly bow-and-arrow attack in Norway

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A 37-year-old Danish antheral is successful custody successful Norway suspected of a bow-and-arrow onslaught connected a tiny municipality that killed 5 radical and wounded 2 others, constabulary said Thursday.

The man, who was not further identified, has confessed to going connected a rampage successful Kongsberg, southwest of the superior Oslo, authoritative Ann Iren Svane Matthiassen said, adding helium was was questioned overnight.

Several of the victims were successful a supermarket, constabulary said.

The man, who lives successful Kongsberg, is known to the police, Svane Matthiassen told Norwegian broadcaster TV2.

Norwegian quality bureau NTB cited constabulary arsenic saying the fishy besides utilized different weapons.

There was “a confrontation” betwixt officers and the assailant successful transportation with the arrest, constabulary said but gave nary details.

Both the hospitalized victims are successful intensive care. They see an off-duty constabulary serviceman who was wrong the store. Their information was not instantly known.

The fishy is being held connected preliminary charges which is simply a measurement abbreviated of ceremonial charges. Police judge helium acted alone.

Police were alerted to the onslaught astir 6:15 p.m. Wednesday and arrested the fishy astir 30 minutes later.

Police spokesperson Oeyvind Aas said that “we volition instrumentality to a much elaborate statement of the people of events erstwhile we person a amended overview of what happened.”

“It goes without saying that this is simply a precise superior and extended situation, and it people affects Kongsberg and those who unrecorded here,” helium said.

Prime Minister-designate Jonas Gahr Stoere, who is expected to instrumentality bureau aboriginal Thursday, called the onslaught “horrific.”

“This is unreal. But the world is that 5 radical person been killed, galore are injured and galore are successful daze ,” Gahr Stoere told Norwegian broadcaster NRK connected Thursday.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wrote connected Twitter that helium was “shocked and saddened by the tragic quality coming from Norway.”

Town officials said the main religion was unfastened to anyone successful request of support.

Kongsberg, a tiny municipality of immoderate 26,000 inhabitants, is astir 66 kilometers (41 miles) southwest of Oslo.