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Police operation in Oslo: Much is still unclear
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In the Norwegian capital Oslo, the police shot an apparently armed man.
The alleged attacker is said to have previously threatened passers-by with a knife, the authorities said.
Norwegian media published recordings of the man with a bare torso and a knife in hand.
According to their own statements, the police initially assumed that several passers-by had been injured, but later announced that only one emergency worker had suffered a slight injury.
He threw open the car door, then shots rang out
So far there is no evidence of a terrorist background, said police chief Egil Joergen Brekke.
According to police reports, a patrol car drove into a building in the Bislett district in northern Oslo to stop the man.
The gunman then attacked the emergency vehicle and opened a car door, said police spokesman Torgeir Brenden.
Several shots were then fired at the man.
The alleged attacker was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died.
It is the second serious incident in the greater Oslo area within a few weeks: in mid-October, a man armed with a bow and arrow killed five people in the small town of Kongsberg and is said to have stabbed his randomly selected victims with a knife.
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