Everything we know so far about the ‘horrifying’ Norway bow and arrow attack

Suspect appears to have carried out an ‘act of terror’, security services say

Police officers cordon off a crime scene in Kongsberg, Norway
Police officers cordon off a crime scene in Kongsberg, Norway
(Image credit: Hakon Mosvold Larsen/NTB/AFP via Getty Images)

The suspect in a bow and arrow attack that left five people dead in Norway was a recent convert to Islam who had been contacted by police over fears he was being radicalised.

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