Norway bow and arrow attack: Suspect is convert to Islam and police had radicalization fears, officials say
A 37-year-old Danish citizen who was residing in Norway has been arrested and charged over the assault however police haven’t disclosed what fees he’s dealing with.
“The police have beforehand been involved with the person, together with on account of earlier issues associated to radicalization,” Sæverud stated.
4 girls and one man had been killed within the assault within the city of Kongsberg.
“We have now some details about the 5 individuals who died. There are 4 girls and a person, nobody has been formally recognized but. It’s going to take a while. They’re all aged 50 to 70 years,” Sæverud informed a information convention.
A timeline of the occasions Wednesday revealed that solely 35 minutes elapsed between the primary stories to police of a person capturing with a bow and arrows and the arrest of the suspect.
Norway’s King Harald expressed his sympathies in a brief message to the mayor of Kongsberg, saying that “the remainder of the nation stands with you.”
“We sympathize with the kin and injured within the grief and despair,” he stated. “And we consider all these affected in Kongsberg who’ve skilled that their protected native setting all of a sudden grew to become a harmful place. It shakes us all when horrible issues occur close to us, while you least anticipate it, in the course of on a regular basis life on the open avenue.”
