A bow-and-arrow attack that left five people dead in Norway is being treated by police as an act of terror after officers revealed the suspect had converted to Islam and that they had concerns about his radicalization.
The investigation,"will clarify in more detail what the incidents were motivated by," the Norwegian Police Security Service said Thursday in a statement. A 37-year-old Danish citizen who was living in Norway was arrested and charged over the attack in the town of Kongsberg, but police have yet to disclose what charges he is facing.
"My youngest daughter was a couple of meters in front of me when she suddenly stopped as there were lots of blue lights," Ostergaard said."We saw a police car with sirens on come, and it stopped at the top of the street. Two policemen jumped out of the car with weapons and ran into the shop here, and they were shouting, 'armed police, put down the weapon.'""Then we were told to move away, that we had to get to safety.
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