{"id":1619,"date":"2021-10-14T09:08:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T09:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2021-10-14T09:08:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T09:08:50","slug":"at-least-5-people-killed-in-bow-and-arrow-attack-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/world\/at-least-5-people-killed-in-bow-and-arrow-attack-in-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 5 people killed in bow and arrow attack in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p><strong>Police not ruling out possibility of act of terrorism, says Norwegian public broadcaster<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>STOCKHOLM, Oct 14 (AA): At least five people are dead and two wounded after a man with a bow and arrows went on a rampage near the Norwegian capital Oslo before being arrested, public broadcaster NRK said early Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attack took place Wednesday night in the town of Kongsberg, NRK reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dead include a police officer who was off duty when the attack occurred, and the wounded have been hospitalized, said local police official \u00d8yvind Aas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police are conducting forensic investigations at several crime scenes and have cordoned off large areas of Kongsberg, NRK said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to NRK, they are not ruling out the possibility of an act of terrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norwegian police authorities later released a new statement on the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attacker is a Danish man living in Kongsberg, the statement said, noting that he has been charged with murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We will get back with a more detailed description of the course of events when we have a better overview of what happened,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police not ruling out possibility of act of terrorism, says Norwegian public broadcaster STOCKHOLM, Oct 14 (AA): At least five people are dead and two wounded after a man with a bow and arrows went on a rampage near the Norwegian capital Oslo before being arrested, public broadcaster NRK said early Thursday. The attack took [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,6],"tags":[791,247,793,794,792],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-world","tag-arrow","tag-attack","tag-bow","tag-kongsberg","tag-norway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}