Oslo: Two people were killed and several others were injured in an armed attack on a nightclub in Norway. In the capital, Oslo, a gunman broke into a nightclub and opened fire.
A police spokesman told local media that the suspect was arrested minutes after the attack, but that the assailant had earlier indiscriminately opened fire on people at the scene and on a nearby road.
“I saw a man with a bag who picked up a gun and started firing at people,” said a local Norwegian journalist as an eyewitness.
The New York Times reports that the bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a London nightclub in central Oslo. Police say the incident is being investigated as a terrorist attack.
Of a foreign news agency According to the report Oslo police have confirmed two deaths in the attack, saying 14 people have been taken to hospital, some in critical condition.
Police say the suspect in the Oslo nightclub and bar shooting is a Norwegian citizen of Iranian descent. The Norwegian intelligence service already had the suspect’s criminal record, in which he had been jailed for minor offenses such as possession of a knife and drugs.
