Investigation Suggests Norway Attack Prompted By ‘Illness’ – Police

The investigation into a bow-and-arrow attack in Norway that left five people dead suggests it was triggered by “illness”, police said Friday. Advertisement “The … Continue reading Investigation Suggests Norway Attack Prompted By ‘Illness’ – Police

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Updated October 15, 2021

Police officers cordon off the scene where they are investigating in Kongsberg, Norway after a man armed with bow killed several people before arrested by police on October 13, 2021. A man armed with a bow and arrows killed several people and wounded others in the southeastern town of Kongsberg in Norway on October 13, 2021, police said, adding they had arrested the suspect. “We can unfortunately confirm that there are several injured and also unfortunately several killed in this episode,” local police official Oyvind Aas told a news conference. “The man who committed this act has been arrested by the police and, according to our information, there is only one person involved.” Håkon Mosvold Larsen / NTB / AFP

Police officers cordon off the scene where they are investigating in Kongsberg, Norway after a man armed with a bow killed several people before being arrested by police on October 13, 2021. Håkon Mosvold Larsen / NTB / AFP

The investigation into a bow-and-arrow attack in Norway that left five people dead suggests it was triggered by “illness”, police said Friday.

“The strongest hypothesis after the first days of the investigation is that illness is in the background,” police inspector Per Thomas Omholt told reporters two days after the attack.