Police in Bergen and Haugesund were investigating two shooting episodes in both west coast cities this week. Police quickly armed themselves after finding a wounded man in Haugesund’s Haraldsvang district.
Witnesses to the shooting had called police Monday night, after one of them observed people carrying suspected firearms. Police, who generally remain unarmed in Norway, didn’t find anyone after arriving at the scene but later were informed of a wounded man in the emergency room at Haugesund Hospital.
They suspected others were also involved and possibly wounded as well as the investigation continued. “These are people in two groups who are acquainted with one another,” a police spokesman told state broadcaster NRK. “No one has been a coincidental victim.”
In Bergen, meanwhile, police were investigating two shootings aimed at two buses in the Fyllingsdalen neighbourhood late Tuesday night. The shootings occurred between 11pm and 1:30am and are believed to have involved an air rifle.
No one was injured but police called the incident serious and aimed at spreading fear. Both shootings come just as the Norwegian government is launching a war on crime after an unusually violent period nationwide.
NewsinEnglish.no staff
