Acting police chief calls Oslo shootings ‘extreme Islamist terror act’ and says gunman has history of violence
The Norwegian security service has raised its terror alert to the highest level after mass shootings left two people dead and many wounded during Pride week in Oslo.
Authorities said a 42-year-old Norwegian national of Iranian origin who was previously known to police had been arrested within minutes of the shootings and was believed to be the sole perpetrator. First reports of the shootings, which happened at the London Pub, a popular bar for the LGBTQ+ community, the nearby Herr Nilsen jazz club, and a takeaway food outlet, were received at 1.14am, hours before the city’s Pride celebrations were due to start.
A witness said the suspect, who was arrested within five minutes of the shootings, had looked “very determined about where he was aiming. There was a bleeding man lying on the ground,” she told Verdens Gang.
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