Norway: Bow-and-arrow attack victims likely stabbed to death
By Associated Press
Published: October 18, 2021, 9:07am
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Police Inspector Per Thomas Omholt holds a press conference about the development in the murder case in Kongsberg, Norway, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. The suspect in a bow-and-arrow attack that killed five people and wounded three in a small Norwegian town is facing a custody hearing Friday. He won't appear in court because he has has confessed to the killings and has agreed to being held in custody. (Terje Bendiksby/NTB via AP)Photo Gallery
HELSINKI — Norwegian police say the Danish man suspected of killing five people and injuring three others in an attack last week also used “stabbing weapons” along with a bow and arrow to kill his victims.
Police inspector Per Thomas Omholt said it was likely the 37-year-old suspect, identified as Espen Andersen Braathen, first used arrows to wound his victims and then killed them by stabbing them with an unspecified weapon or weapons in Wednesday’s attack in Kongsberg, a town of 26,000 southwest of the capital, Oslo.
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