In front of a gay bar, the day before an LGBT day.
Two people were killed and 14 people injured, several seriously, in shootings near bars in central Oslo overnight from Friday to Saturday, Norwegian police said, who arrested a suspect.
This Saturday morning, the latter announced to investigate "a terrorist attack".
The shooting occurred around 1 local time at three close locations, including a gay bar, in the center of the Norwegian capital.
The police reported two dead and 14 wounded, and said that two weapons had been seized.
#Breaking Several shots were fired outside the London pub in central Oslo.
At least two people have been shot and killed.
„I saw a man come to the place with a bag, he picked up a weapon and started firing“ said a witness.
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“Everything now indicates that there was only one person who committed this gesture,” said a police official, Tore Barstad, during a press briefing.
However, the workforce has been reinforced in the capital to deal with other incidents, he added, without wanting to specify whether it was a terrorist act.
Police received the first reports at 1:14 a.m. and the suspect was arrested five minutes later, he said.
The shooting happened near the London Pub gay club, the Herr Nilsen jazz club and a takeaway food outlet.
Police officials gathered to reflect on the impact of the shooting on the staging of the Pride march due to take place on Saturday afternoon in Oslo.
The day before the Pride parade
Witnesses say: “He looked very determined on where he was aiming.
When I understood that it was serious, I ran.
There was a bleeding man lying on the ground,” a woman who witnessed the scene told Verdens Gang (VG) newspaper.
Another witness mentioned to VG the use of an automatic weapon - information that the police did not confirm - and spoke of "a scene of war".
“There were a lot of injured people on the ground who had head injuries,” he said.
According to an NRK journalist present at the time of the shooting, the shooter arrived with a bag from which he pulled out a weapon with which he fired.
The area was patrolled by heavily armed police equipped with bulletproof vests and helmets.
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Among the 14 injured, eight were taken to hospital and six others were taken care of by a medical service.
"Some are described as seriously injured, others as more lightly injured," said policeman Tore Barstad.
Generally little faced with bloodshed, Norway was the scene of bloody attacks on July 22, 2011 when right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in a bomb attack on the government headquarters in Oslo and a shooting against a gathering of young laborers on the island of Utoeya.
