Suspect in Norway bow-and-arrow killings had been flagged over radicalisation

Police work near a site after a man killed some people in Kongsberg, Norway, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. A man armed with a bow and arrows killed several people Wednesday near the Norwegian capital of Oslo before he was arrested, authorities said. (Terje Bendiksby/NTB via AP)

A Danish man in custody suspected of a bow-and-arrow attack that killed five people in a small Norwegian town is a Muslim convert who had previously been flagged as having being radicalised, police said.

“There earlier had been worries of the man having been radicalised,” police chief Ole B Saeverud told a press conference.