A person reportedly armed with a knife threatened passers-by on the streets of the Norwegian capital, Oslo, on Tuesday, earlier than being shot useless by police, officers mentioned.
Norwegian media revealed footage of the alleged attacker, bare from the waist up and wielding a knife. Police initially steered that passers-by had been wounded, however later mentioned that just one police officer was barely damage.
Police on the location the place an individual was shot within the Bislett neighborhood of northern Oslo in Oslo, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. (AP)
“We have so far no information that this is terror-related,” Senior Police Chief Egil Joergen Brekke advised a information convention.
“To us, this appears to be a stand-alone act, so that there is no reason to fear for the safety of the city for others. This is a person who is known to us in the past and who has a history,” Brekke advised reporters.
The first reviews to the police shortly earlier than 9 a.m. had been a couple of man with a knife working after one other individual, Brekke mentioned. A close-by patrol automobile within the Bislett neighborhood of northern Oslo rushed to the scene and first tried to cease the person by working him down earlier than it drove right into a constructing between a flower store and a restaurant to halt the person’s progress.
The man managed to open the automobile door, police spokesman Torgeir Brenden mentioned.
He mentioned “several shots” had been fired on the man however didn’t specify whether or not it was the cops within the automobile who opened fireplace. Brenden mentioned the perpetrator was rushed to a close-by hospital the place he died.
Norwegian media mentioned as much as six photographs had been heard, citing witnesses. Brekke couldn’t give detailed data, saying the Norwegian Bureau for the Investigation of Police Affairs is probing the occasions — which is customary in Norway when cops use firearms.
“To my knowledge, there are no other injured,” Brekke, the police chief, mentioned.
Last month a person armed with a bow and arrow and a knife killed 5 folks in a small city southwest of Oslo.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere mentioned that he understood “very well” why locals skilled Tuesday’s occasions as dramatic.
“But if you compare with other large cities in Europe, Oslo is a safe city,” he advised Norwegian information company NTB.
