At least three people have been injured, one critically, in a random knife attack in a town near Oslo, Norwegian police said Friday.
The suspect has been arrested, police said, adding that they received the alert at 8.48am. "I can confirm we have the offender under control," a police spokesperson told Reuters.
The attack took place in Nore, in the Numedal valley. Norwegian broadcaster TV2 said that there were several ambulances, including air ambulances, at the scene, and numerous police vehicles.
The broadcaster quoted a witness saying bleeding victims came running from behind a convenience store.
William Scott, who was in the area delivering goods, told the VG newspaper he saw an injured woman lying on the ground after the attack.
"At first I thought it was a collision because there was a large pool of blood on the ground," he said.
Nore is close to Kongsberg, where five people were fatally stabbed and four wounded last October when Espen Andersen Brathen attacked strangers with a bow and arrows and knives.
He has pleaded guilty in a trial that started Wednesday. He also faces 11 counts of attempted murder for the attack in a former mining town of 26,000 people.
