2 people killed in Norway after shooter opens fire on hunting party
Police arrested a suspect after the shooting, and the injured victim was flown to a hospital, officials said.
- Two people were shot dead and a third was seriously wounded during a hunting incident in Norway, Police said on Sunday near Halden, about 120 kilometres south of Oslo.
- The incident took place near the Swedish border, about 96 kilometres from Oslo, as Police representative Gisle Lindheim Sveen wrote on the force's website.
- "Three people were hit by bullets. The third is seriously wounded," Sveen wrote, adding "They were part of a hunting party."
- A suspect was arrested at the scene and is not believed to be part of the hunting party, authorities said in a statement.
- Investigations into the shooting near Halden continue as officials work to clarify circumstances, with no other details regarding the suspect or motive released by Police in Norway.
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IN A SHOOTING near Halden, Norway, a man killed a father and son and wounded a hunter, and after being subdued by bystanders, he admitted criminal responsibility.
A man shot at the participants of a hunting trip in Norway, and a father and his son died, and another person was killed.
Two people were shot in a forest area near the Norwegian Halden on Sunday morning. Another person suffered life-threatening injuries. According to police reports, the alleged perpetrator arrested at the crime scene was a man at the end of the 20th century.
Two men were shot dead early this morning in a forest in southeastern Norway. A third man was seriously injured. The shooter has been arrested. The victims are a man in his seventies and his son in his forties. The seriously injured man is also in his forties, police report. They received the first report around 7:30 a.m. The men were part of a group planning to go hunting near Halden, not far from the border with Sweden. At the moment of the …
Two people were killed and one was seriously injured in a shooting while hunting in the south of Norway, the police announced.
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