Norway bow-and-arrow attacker 'was a convert to Islam'
A 37-year-old Danish man who killed five people in a bow-and-arrow rampage in Norway was a Muslim convert who had been flagged to police due to radicalisation concerns, cops have said.
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A 37-year-old Danish man who killed five people in a bow-and-arrow rampage in Norway was a Muslim convert who had been flagged to police due to radicalisation concerns, cops have said.
A 37-year-old Danish man was yesterday being questioned by Norwegian police as the chief suspect wanted for killing five people by bow and arrow in the country’s deadliest attack in a decade. Regional police chief Ole B. Saeverud told a news conference that the man, a Muslim convert, had previously been flagged. “There earlier had been worries of the man having been radicalized,” Saeverud said. The victims were four women and one man aged 50 to 70, Saeverud said. The man is suspected of having shot at people in a number of locations in the town of Kongsberg on Wednesday evening, includin...
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OSLO, Norway -- A man armed with a bow and arrows went on a rampage in a Norwegian town outside Oslo on Wednesday, killing five people and wounding two others in the deadliest attack in Norway in a decade, the authorities said.
A man armed with a bow and arrows killed several people and wounded others in southeastern Norway on Wednesday, police said, adding they had arrested the suspec