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Man kills several people in bow and arrow attack in Norway

By Luke Gentile
Published October 13, 2021 8:32pm ET
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Man kills several people in bow and arrow attack in Norway
Police at the scene after an attack in Kongsberg, Norway, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. Several people have been killed and others injured by a man armed with a bow and arrow in a town west of the Norwegian capital, Oslo. (Hakon Mosvold Larsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)Hakon Mosvold Larsen/AP Several people were killed and others injured […]
Norway Bow and Arrow Attack
Police at the scene after an attack in Kongsberg, Norway, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. Several people have been killed and others injured by a man armed with a bow and arrow in a town west of the Norwegian capital, Oslo. (Hakon Mosvold Larsen/NTB Scanpix via AP)

Several people were killed and others injured Wednesday after a man in Norway launched an assault with a bow and arrow, authorities said.

The suspect allegedly carried out the attack around 6:30 p.m. local time (12:30 p.m. EDT) in the town of Kongsberg, which lies 52 miles southwest of Oslo and has a population of 28,000, police said.

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