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The man, who has long-suffered from mental illness, pleaded guilty to the charges against him last month. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Espen Andersen Brathen, who spread terror through the peaceful streets of Kongsberg in October unleashed a volley of arrows and also knifed his victims to death.

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A man who killed five people and wounded four others in southern Norway last year when he attacked strangers with a bow and arrow and knives has been charged with mu...

Comment: Norwegian police reporting on this has been dodgy from the get-go. Why were the initial reports so full of details that were so wrong? Five people who died in an attack in Norway last week were actually killed by a "sharp object" and not...

OSLO -- The attacker who went on a rampage in a town in Norway killed his five victims using a "sharp object," not a bow and arrow as had been widely reported, the Norwegian police announced Monday.

The Norwegian police on Monday said that while a hunting bow had been used in last week’s rampage, the victims, four women and a man, were stabbed to death.

Police believe a bow-and-arrow attack that killed five may have been as a result of mental illness.

KONGSBERG, Norway: A bow-and-arrow attack in Norway that left five people dead this week appears to have been motivated by mental illness, authorities indicated Friday, as the perpetrator was ordered to be kept in a medical facility. Espen Andersen Brathen, a 37-year-old Danish citizen who converted to Islam and is believed to have been radicalized, has confessed to the

NORWAY <strong>Psychiatric tests for attacker</strong> A bow-and-arrow attack in Norway that left five people dead this week appears to have been motivated by mental illness, authorities said on Friday, as the perpetrator was ordered to be kept in a medical facility. Espen Andersen Brathen, a 37-year-old Danish citizen who converted to Islam and is believed to have been radicalized, has confessed to the Wednesday killings. He was in custody in a medical facility on Friday pending a p...