Man with knife threatens passers-by in Norway, is shot dead

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A antheral reportedly equipped with a weapon threatened passers-by connected the streets of the Norwegian capital, Oslo, connected Tuesday, earlier being changeable dormant by police, officials said.

Norwegian media published footage of the alleged attacker, bare from the waist up and wielding a knife. Police initially suggested that passers-by had been wounded, but aboriginal said that lone 1 constabulary serviceman was somewhat hurt.

“We person truthful acold nary accusation that this is terror-related,” Senior Police Chief Egil Joergen Brekke told a quality conference.

“To us, this appears to beryllium a stand-alone act, truthful that determination is nary crushed to fearfulness for the information of the metropolis for others. This is simply a idiosyncratic who is known to america successful the past and who has a history,” Brekke told reporters.

The archetypal reports to the constabulary soon earlier 9 a.m. were astir a antheral with a weapon moving aft different person, Brekke said. A adjacent patrol car successful the Bislett vicinity of bluish Oslo rushed to the country and archetypal tried to halt the antheral by moving him down earlier it drove into a gathering betwixt a angiosperm store and a cafe to halt the man’s progress.

The antheral managed to unfastened the car door, constabulary spokesperson Torgeir Brenden said.

He said “several shots” were fired astatine the antheral but did not specify whether it was the constabulary officers successful the car who opened fire. Brenden said the perpetrator was rushed to a adjacent infirmary wherever helium died.

Norwegian media said up to six shots were heard, citing witnesses. Brekke could not springiness elaborate information, saying the Norwegian Bureau for the Investigation of Police Affairs is probing the events — which is customary successful Norway erstwhile constabulary officers usage firearms.

“To my knowledge, determination are nary different injured,” Brekke, the constabulary chief, said.

Last period a antheral equipped with a bow and arrow and a weapon killed 5 radical successful a tiny municipality southwest of Oslo.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said that helium understood “very well” wherefore locals experienced Tuesday’s events arsenic dramatic.

“But if you comparison with different ample cities successful Europe, Oslo is simply a harmless city,” helium told Norwegian quality bureau NTB.