Suspect in Norway attack named as police say they're treating it as terrorism
By James Frater and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN
Thu October 14, 2021
A police investigator passes a Norwegian policeman standing guard Thursday as investigations continue into the deadly bow-and-arrow attack in Kongsberg, Norway.
Four women and one man were killed in the attack, while three people were injured.
(CNN)Norwegian police have named the suspect in Wednesday's bow-and-arrow attack that left five people dead as 37-year-old Espen Andersen Bråthen.
Earlier, police said they were treating the attack as an act of terror after officers revealed the suspect had converted to Islam and that they had concerns about his radicalization.
The investigation "will clarify in more detail what the incidents were motivated by," the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) said Thursday in a statement.
"The police have previously been in contact with the man, including as a result of previous concerns related to radicalization," police chief Ole Bredrup Sæverud said Thursday.
The suspect had not appeared on their radar this year though, Sæverud indicated, saying the police had "received no reports in 2021 regarding radicalization."
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