Norway how many killed

A year-old Danish man has been arrested and is being questioned by police, who have not ruled out terrorism. The attack was the country's deadliest since the far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in The attack took place on Wednesday evening in Kongsberg, which is about 80km 49 miles south-west of Norway's capital, Oslo. The attacker launched the assault near a Coop Extra supermarket on Kongsberg's west side.

Police first received a report of a man shooting at people with a bow and arrow at local time GMT. Shortly afterwards, officers arrived on the scene.

It is not clear if they were armed when they first came across the suspect. They made contact with the attacker at The officers were then shot at with arrows before the attacker escaped. Attacks were subsequently reported in different locations. One witness told local media they saw a woman lying injured at an intersection and calling for help.

Another witness told the TV2 channel that she saw a "man standing on the corner with arrows in a quiver on his shoulder and a bow in his hand".

One of them was a woman holding a child by the hand," she said. Images from Kongsberg showed arrows lying on the ground and one sticking out of a wall. At a news conference on Thursday, Norwegian police official Ole Bredrup Saeverud said the victims were most likely killed after officers first confronted the attacker. The suspect was arrested at - 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. Anders Behring Breivik carried out twin attacks that killed 77 people on July 22, In August , self-proclaimed neo-Nazi Philip Manshaus opened fire into a mosque on the outskirts of Oslo before being overpowered by worshippers.

A lone gunman carrying multiple weapons was overpowered by members of the mosque before police arrived, witness says. Published On 13 Oct The TV2 station reported that the man also had a knife or other weapons.

Police ordered to carry firearms After the attack, the police directorate said it had immediately ordered officers nationwide to carry firearms. Armed violence is rare in Norway, but the country has suffered far-right attacks in the past. Flags flew at half-mast across Kongsberg after the deaths of four women and a man, all aged between 50 and Three others, including an off-duty police officer, were wounded.

Regional police chief Ole Bredrup Saeverud said the suspect had converted to Islam. We haven't registered anything in regards to him in , but previously," Saeverud told a news conference. Determining whether the attack was an act of terrorism or the result of a psychiatric issue "will be a vital, important part of the investigation", he told Reuters. The method of the attack, said Sjoevold, was similar to many politically motivated attacks carried out in Europe in recent years.

The police are not present, so they can carry out the That's quite typical for these operandi," he told Reuters. On Wednesday, Kongsberg resident Markus Kultima, 23, who works in a beer shop, witnessed parts of the attack.

An arrow left in a wall is seen after several people were killed and others were injured by a man using a bow and arrows to carry out attacks, in Kongsberg, Norway, October 13, He said it was the off-duty officer who told him to head home.