OSLO – One person was injured in a shooting inside a Mosque in a suburb ofthe Norwegian capital Oslo on Saturday, police said, adding that a suspecthad been arrested.
“One person is shot. The severity of that person’s injuries is unknown. Onesuspect is arrested. The police are working at the location,” Oslo policesaid linkTwitter.
The shooting occurred at the al-Noor Islamic centre in the town of Baerum,an Oslo suburb.
Police said there was no indication that more people were involved.
“One of our members has been shot by a white man with a helmet anduniform,” Irfan Mushtaq, head of the mosque, told local paper Budstikka.
The man suspected of opening fire at a mosque in the Norwegian capital ofOslo on Saturday has expressed right-wing sympathies online, the policesaid in a news conference Sunday.
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Superintendent Rune Skjold told reporters the suspect, described only as aNorwegian man in his 20s, has praised figures like Vidkun Quisling, theleader of Norway under Nazi occupation during World War II.
The shooting is being investigated as a “possible act of terrorism,” policesaid.
The man has been charged with the murder of a woman found dead in his homeand is also facing an attempted murder charge in the shooting at Al-NoorIslamic Center in Oslo.
