Norway Bus Hijacking Leaves 3 Dead In Country's Sogn And Fjordane County

STAVANGER, Norway -- STAVANGER,
Norway (AP) — A knife-wielding man on
Monday hijacked a bus in western
Norway and killed three people on board,
including the bus driver, police said.
The suspect, described as a man in his
50s, was arrested after the attack in Sogn
and Fjordane county, local police
said.Authorities first got reports of
injuries in connection with a bus
accident and rescuers from the fire
department were the first to arrive on
the scene, police spokesman Odd Arne
Solvag said. He said the rescuers
apprehended the suspect who was later
arrested by police.
Solvag said the suspect was not an ethnic
Norwegian but could not give details on
where he was from.
The motive was not immediately clear.
Oslo police was getting ready to send an
anti-terror unit to the scene aboard army
helicopters but called off the deployment
after receiving reports that the suspect
had been arrested.
"The situation was very unclear. They
only told us that there was one man on
the bus who had hijacked the bus and the
driver was hurt. That was the first
message we got here," Oslo police
spokesman Andre Krakenes said.
Multiple killings are rare in Norway,
though the country was shocked by its
worst peacetime massacre two years ago
when a right-wing extremist killed 77
people in a bomb and gun rampage.