AT LEAST five people have been killed and two others wounded by a man armed with a bow and arrow following a terrifying attack in Norway.
Among the dead are four women and one man, all believed to be aged between 50 and 70-years-old.
Police were first alerted to the situation at around 6:15 local time on Wednesday evening, and were called out to the town of Kongsberg, south-west of the Norwegian capital Oslo.
A 37-year-old Danish man was arrested half an hour after the attack began and is currently being questioned in custody.
The suspect is reportedly a Muslim convert who was known to police, who had been in contact with him previously over fears of radicalisation.
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Witnesses to the attack described hearing "women's screams" at the scene, adding that it sounded like "a death cry".
The attacker is said to have launched the assault inside a Coop Extra supermarket on Kongsberg's west side. One of those injured was an off-duty police officer who was in the shop at the time.
It ended after police fired warning shots at the suspect.
The attack was Norway's deadliest since far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 people, most of them at a children's Labour Party summer camp on the island of Utoya in July 2011.