5 Dead in Norway Bow and Arrow Attack, Danish Man Charged

The motive of the attack remains unknown at the moment. The acting prime minister, Erna Solberg called the attack "horrific" and the prime minister-designate, Jonas Gahr Støre called it “a cruel and brutal act”, added The Guardian. Norway's 2021 parliamentary election had been held in mid-September in which the incumbent Conservative Party lost to The Norwegian Labour Party. The most heinous attack that has taken place in the country during peacetime was by the far-right domestic terrorist Anders Breivik who was responsible for a bomb blast in Oslo that killed eight in July 2011, according to the Associated Press. After the bomb attack, he went to Utoya Island and murdered 69 participants of the Labour Party's youth wing in a mass shooting.