Kongsberg perpetrator
Police: Fatalities in Norway probably killed with stabbing weapons
Police technicians are investigating the apartment of the man who killed five people in Kongsberg. Photo: Terje Pedersen / NTB / dpa
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After the fatal attack on several people in Kongsberg, Norway, police have released details of the victims’ cause of death. The attacker was armed with a bow and arrow.
The attacker in Norway, equipped with a bow and arrow, allegedly killed all five fatalities with stabbing weapons, according to police.
The current state of the investigation indicates that the perpetrator initially fired a series of arrows to injure people, said police inspector Per Thomas Omholt at a press conference in Kongsberg on Monday. He probably didn’t have arrows and bows with him later. In one street he then killed the five people with two stabbing weapons – some in their own four walls, others outside in the open. The investigations are still in an early phase.
In the small town in the south of the Scandinavian country, the man killed five people and injured three others last Wednesday. For the time being, everything indicates that all victims were selected at random, said Omholt. He left open what kind of stabbing weapon it was in order not to influence witnesses.
It is still the most likely hypothesis that the offender’s motive can be traced back to a mental illness, said Omholt. Around 60 witnesses have now been questioned, and a total of around 140 people have been spoken to.
A 37-year-old native Dane has admitted that he killed five people in the center of Kongsberg on Wednesday evening. Norwegian police released the names of the victims, including four women and one man, on Saturday. Among them is a woman from Germany, as the Federal Foreign Office confirmed at the weekend.