It was at 6 pm on Wednesday that the police in Norway were alerted that a suspected perpetrator had walked around the center with a bow and shot at people.

Five people were killed in the attack and three were injured.

After the police got in touch with the suspected perpetrator, Gustav von Stibo saw how people ran away outside his apartment and how the police searched for the perpetrator.

- Everything went very fast.

Like an action movie stuck in reality.

"Unreal"

Another resident in Kongsberg, Svein Kjetil Ormåsen, describes what has happened as unreal and shocking.


- It is unbelievable that something like this can happen in such a small town, he says.

"Becomes such a hatred"



A suspected perpetrator has been arrested, and the attack is considered a terrorist act.

According to the police, the 37-year-old suspect has connections to radical circles and has converted to Islam, but it is unclear if it has any connection to the motive.

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Living in Kongsberg: You don't think that kind of thing will happen in a small town

- I had hoped that it would not be so.

It will be such a hatred of Muslims as it can quickly become.

I hope we can avoid it, says Vidar Haugen.



Listen to other residents in Kongsberg in the clip below.