Man charged with murder over bow and arrow and knife attack in Norway

A person has been charged with homicide over a bow and arrow and knife assault in southern Norway final October.

5 folks died and 4 others had been wounded within the small city of Kongsberg.

The suspect -- Espen Andersen Bråthen -- faces counts of homicide and tried homicide for allegedly capturing at folks with a bow and arrow and attacking passers-by with knives.

He's additionally accused of inflicting bodily hurt, threatening behaviour, refusing to obey police orders and throwing knives at officers.

Norwegian prosecutors have referred to as for the suspect to be sentenced to obligatory psychological well being care, saying he was in a “strongly deviating way of thinking” when he carried out the rampage.

Andersen Bråthen has been detained at a closed psychiatric ward and three forensic psychiatric specialists have concluded that he was most likely insane on the time of the killings.

The 38-year-old is because of go on trial on 18 Could on the Buskerud District Courtroom.

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