The suspect in a deadly bow-and-arrow attack in Norway has been charged with five counts of murder, police said
Kongsberg, Norway Friday.
Espen Andersen Bråthen, a 37-year-old Danish citizen, was arrested Wednesday over the attack, which took place in the Norwegian town of Kongsberg that evening.He is being held in a secure health unit rather than a prison, police inspector Per Thorens Omholt said at a press conference Friday in Kongsberg.Police have interviewed more than 50 witnesses, he said, and are checking the suspect's digital media."This is a very serious case for local community and the country.
The Prime Minister drew a parallel between Wednesday's attack and the gun and bomb attacks carried out in Norway in 2011 by far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, adding that two ministers in his new government were survivors of those attacks. "It was an act of terrorism, and this act that happened yesterday naturally reminds us of those who have experienced such terrible things and we will stand by them," he said.
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