A person has been arrested in Norway after three individuals had been stabbed in a village close to Oslo on Friday.
One particular person was significantly injured within the assault, the police mentioned, including that two individuals had been transferred to hospital by helicopter for remedy.
The drive later mentioned there was “a household relationship” between the suspect and one of many victims.
“This can be a household from Syria, and the perpetrator and one of many injured are married,” police inspector Odd Skei Kostveit mentioned in an announcement.
The assailant had obtained a restraining order in December following an investigation into home violence, based on the police.
The stabbings befell on Friday morning within the village of Nore, situated 62 miles from the capital Oslo. A number of ambulances, together with air ambulances, had been on the scene, the Norwegian broadcaster TV2 reported.
Supply driver William Scott instructed the VG newspaper he noticed an injured lady mendacity on the bottom after the assault. “At first I assumed it was a collision as a result of there was a big pool of blood on the bottom,” he mentioned.
Police spokesman Tor Richard Jansen mentioned civilians had overpowered the suspect, earlier than handing him over to firefighters who reached the scene earlier than the police.
In response to the stabbing, Norway’s justice minister Emilie Enger Mehl mentioned: “Such acts of violence are critical and despairing.”
The assault comes two days after a Danish man pleaded responsible to stabbing 5 individuals to dying final October in a Norwegian city near Nore.
Espen Andersen Braathen, 38, additionally admitted making an attempt to homicide 11 others with a bow and arrow as he randomly focused individuals in Kongsberg, a small city 40 miles to the west of Oslo.
The police initially thought it was an “act of terror”, earlier than realising that Braathen was affected by psychological sickness on the time. The prosecution has requested the courtroom to condemn him to psychiatric care.
“We hope that we are going to get solutions,” prosecutor Andreas Christiansen mentioned earlier than the beginning of the trial, which is scheduled to run till 22 June.
