DHAKA: Three people were killed on Monday when a man armed with a knife hijacked a bus in western Norway, police said.

The suspected hijacker, a man in his 50s of foreign origin, has been arrested, police officer Joern Lasse Foerde Refsnes told the TV2 Nyhetskanalen news channel.

‘For now, I have no information to indicate there was anyone else but the three victims’ on the bus, he said, reports The Straits Times.

The identity of the suspect, who was himself injured according to Norwegian media, as well as the motives for the attack were not immediately clear.

BDST: 1423 HRS, NOV 05, 2013
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