OSLO, Norway (AP) — Two folks have been killed and greater than a dozen injured early Saturday in a mass taking pictures in Oslo, Norwegian police stated, as the town was gearing up for an annual Satisfaction parade.
The taking pictures occurred exterior a bar within the downtown space of the Norwegian capital, police stated.
A suspect was arrested and police don’t consider another folks have been concerned, police spokesman Tore Barstad stated.
Barstad stated the motive was not instantly recognized and that it wasn’t clear whether or not the taking pictures had any connection to the Satisfaction parade that was to be held Saturday in Oslo.
“Police are in touch with the organizers of the Satisfaction occasion this Saturday. There will probably be a steady evaluation of what measures police ought to take to guard that occasion and whether or not this incident has a connection to Satisfaction in any respect,” Barstad advised reporters.
Olav Roenneberg, a journalist from Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, stated he witnessed the taking pictures.
“I noticed a person arrive on the website with a bag. He picked up a weapon and began taking pictures,” Roenneberg advised NRK. “First I assumed it was an air gun. Then the glass of the bar subsequent door was shattered and I understood I needed to run for canopy.”
Norway skilled one of many worst mass shootings in Europe in 2011 when a right-wing extremist killed 69 folks on the island of Utoya after setting off a bomb in Oslo that left eight lifeless.
