Threatens passersby half naked and armed with a knife: shot dead by the police

Norwegian police said they had shot a knife-wielding man this morning who threatened several people in central Oslo and then attacked a patrol car that arrived at the scene.

While the officers tried to arrest the attacker, in the Bislett district of the capital, a policeman was injured.

No details of the attacker's identity or motive were revealed. "We are not ruling out any reasons, but at this stage there is nothing to indicate that it is a terrorist attack," police inspector Egil Jorgen Brekke told reporters.

According to some local media, the man was 30 years old, was of Russian descent and had been sentenced to psychiatric treatment in December 2020 after stabbing a man in Oslo in 2019.

Pictures broadcast by the Norwegian media show the shirtless assailant brandishing a large knife on the sidewalk outside a shop.

(Unioneonline / vl)