Norway bow and arrow attacker sentenced to psychiatric care


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  • Friday, 24 Jun 2022

FILE PHOTO: Members of the police work as the investigation continues after a deadly attack in Kongsberg, Norway October 14, 2021. REUTERS/Victoria Klesty/File Photo

OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian court sentenced a man to psychiatric care on Friday after finding him guilty of stabbing to death five people and attempting to murder 11 others with a bow and arrow.

Espen Andersen Braathen, 38, a Danish citizen who has lived his whole life in Norway, had pleaded guilty to the charges brought against him after his rampage in the small Norwegian town of Kongsberg last year.

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