The man who killed five and wounded two others in a bow and arrow attack last week in Norway also stabbed the victims, police said Monday.
Espen Andersen Braathen, 37, was arrested Wednesday after a deadly attack which started at a supermarket in Kongsberg. The Danish man was later transferred to a mental hospital for further evaluation, but more details about the incident are emerging.
“When it comes to weapons, we have previously stated that a bow and arrow has been used,” police inspector Per Thomas Omholt said told a news conference Monday. “Other weapons that have been used are stabbing weapons. We don’t want to go out with what kind of stabbing weapons were used as all witnesses at the scene haven’t been questioned yet.”
Andersen Braathen has already confessed to five murders and could face additional charges.
Omholt reiterated Norwegian police’s assessment that the suspect’s apparent mental illness was the likely cause for the attack, while Andersen Braathen’s statement of being a convert to Islam had become a less important investigation line.
The victims were previously identified as four women, ages 52, 56, 75 and 78, and a 75-year-old man.
Omholt said it was likely that all of the victims were selected randomly. However, several of them lived on the same street and knew each other.
With News Wire Services
