Espen Andersen Brathen

Mental illness may have triggered Norway bow-and-arrow attack

Espen Andersen Brathen is believed to have acted alone when he killed four women and a man, aged between 50 and 70, in several locations in Kongsberg where he lived
While authorities said the attack bore the hallmarks of an act of terror, they seemed to be leaning toward the theory that it was the act of a mentally unstable person

By AFP · 15 October 2021