Norwegian police said on Wednesday they had arrested a man suspected of stabbing three women, one of them fatally, in the southeast of the country for reasons that are still unknown.
The victims were attacked during the night of Tuesday to Wednesday in three different places in the city of Sarpsborg, south of Oslon in Norway.
The excluded terrorist act
"At this stage, the investigation confirms that there is only one attacker behind the knife attacks in Sarpsborg," the police said in a statement. The police have so far retained the counts of murder and attempted murder, thus appearing to exclude a terrorist act.
Suspect arrested
The suspect is a 31-year-old Norwegian of foreign origin who has already been convicted of violence, according to the police. Recognized by one of his victims, he was arrested at his home shortly after the fact. "The investigations into the person in question and the contacts that the police have had so far with him have pleaded for him to be presented to a doctor and then hospitalized," the statement said.
"The police are checking whether the mental health of this man may have had an impact on the course of events," it also reads. The deceased is a woman in her fifties. No details were provided on the other two injured women, one seriously, the other more lightly.
The suspect knew at least two of the victims
At this point, investigators have established that the suspect knew at least two of the victims. According to the newspaper Sarpsborg Arbeiderblad , the husband of one of them said that the assailant had come to their home.
"We were watching TV when we heard a knock on the door. When I opened he wanted to stab me but I managed to avoid it, "the husband told the newspaper. The assailant then entered their home and stabbed his wife in the arm.
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