Five people were killed and two others seriously injured in a bow and arrow attack Norway.
Police said that following the incident in the southern city of Kongsberg, a suspect has been arrested and an investigation has been started.
It was reported that the suspect started shooting in a supermarket around 6:30 p.m. before going into town and apparently shooting at strangers.
Two other people were injured and hospitalized in intensive care, including an off duty officer who was in the store where the attack took place, police said.
The Kongsberg City Police Chief said there was “a confrontation” between the officers and the attacker, but did not elaborate.
“The man who committed the crime was arrested by the police and there is no active search for anyone else. According to the information available to us, there is a person behind it, ”said Police Chief Oeying Aas.
Police stand at the scene after an attack in Kongsberg, Norway Photo credit: Hakon Mosvold Larsen / AP
The incumbent Prime Minister Erna Solberg described the attack as “cruel” and said it was too early to speculate about the man’s motive.
Prime Minister-designate Jonas Gahr Stoere, who is expected to take office on Thursday, called the attack “a cruel and brutal act” in comments to the Norwegian news agency NTB.
The municipality is 66 kilometers southwest of Oslo.
City officials invited those affected and their families to gather at a local hotel for assistance.
The attack comes a decade after right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik set off a bomb in Oslo’s government district and then massacred the summer camp of the left-wing Labor Party youth organization on Utoya Island.
The violence on July 22, 2011 killed 77 people and stunned Norway.
Breivik was sentenced to 21 years in prison, the maximum sentence under Norwegian law, but his sentence can be extended as long as he is seen as a threat to society.
