What we know:
A Danish man in his 30s is in custody after five people were killed and two others injured in a series of assaults using a bow and arrows in Norway on Wednesday evening.
The country’s intelligence service said the attack appeared to be an “act of terror”.
The suspect is a Muslim convert who had previously been flagged as having been radicalised, according to police, but establishing motive would be “complicated … and will take time”.
The suspect, who police say has confessed, is being held on preliminary charges, one step short of being formally charged. He is believed to have acted alone.
The attack took place at around 6.15pm local time in the suspect’s home town of Kongsberg, about 50 miles (80km) south-west of the capital, Oslo.
Several of the victims were fired on in a Coop supermarket in the town, and the attacker used other weapons as well as a bow and arrows.
The suspect was arrested after what police called a “confrontation” about 20 minutes after the attack began.
Police said there were several crime scenes spread across a large area of the town.
Norway’s national police directorate said it had ordered officers nationwide to carry firearms.
The acting prime minister, Erna Solberg, described reports of the attack as “horrifying”. The prime minister-designate, Jonas Gahr Støre, who is expected to take office on Thursday, called the assault “a cruel and brutal act”.
The death toll was the worst of any attack in Norway since 2011, when the far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people, most of them teenagers at a youth camp.
