{"id":79205,"date":"2022-06-25T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=79205"},"modified":"2022-06-25T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T12:57:00","slug":"two-killed-14-wounded-in-oslo-norway-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=79205","title":{"rendered":"Two killed, 14 wounded in Oslo, Norway shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"News Desk:<\/strong> Two people were killed and 14 others wounded, several seriously, in shootings near bars in central Oslo, Norwegian police said Saturday.<\/p>\n

Police said a suspect had been arrested following the shootings, which occurred around 1:00 am (2300 GMT Friday) in three locations, including a gay bar, close together in the centre of the Norwegian capital.<\/p>\n

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Police reported two dead and 14 wounded, and said two weapons had been seized.<\/p>\n

“Now everything indicates that there was only one person who committed this act,” police official Tore Barstad told a press briefing.<\/p>\n

Police numbers had however been reinforced in the capital to deal with other incidents, he added, without wishing to specify whether it was a terrorist act.<\/p>\n

Police received the first reports at 1:14 am and the suspect was arrested five minutes later, he said.<\/p>\n

The shootings happened near the London Pub gay club, the Herr Nilsen jazz club and a takeaway food outlet.<\/p>\n

Police officials gathered to consider the impact of the shooting on the staging of Oslo's Pride march which is due to take place on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Heavily armed police equipped with bulletproof vests and helmets were patrolling the scene of the shootings.<\/p>\n

“He looked very determined about where he was aiming. When I realised it was serious, I ran. There was a bleeding man lying on the ground,” a woman who saw the incident told the Verdens Gang newspaper.<\/p>\n

Another witness quoted by the paper mentioned the use of an automatic weapon — which the police did not confirm — and described it as “a war zone”.<\/p>\n

“There were a lot of injured people on the ground who had head injuries,” he said.<\/p>\n

According to an NRK radio journalist present at the time of the shooting, the shooter arrived with a bag from which he pulled out a weapon and started firing.<\/p>\n

Among the 14 wounded, eight were taken to hospital and six others were taken care of by a medical service.<\/p>\n

“Some are described as seriously injured, others as more lightly injured,” said Barstad.<\/p>\n

Generally peaceful Norway was the scene of bloody attacks on July 22, 2011 when right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people.<\/p>\n

He first detonated a bomb near the government headquarters in Oslo, killing eight people.<\/p>\n

He then disguised himself as a policeman and went on a shooting spree at a summer camp for left-wing youth on the island of Utoya, killing another 69 people — most of them teenagers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News Desk: Two people were killed and 14 others wounded, several seriously, in shootings near bars in central Oslo, Norwegian police said Saturday. Police said a suspect had been arrested following the shootings, which occurred around 1:00 am (2300 GMT Friday) in three locations, including a gay bar, close together in the centre of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":79206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n