https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58924466Kongsberg attack:
Norway probes bow and arrow suspect’s sanity
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The man suspected of killing five people with a bow and arrows in Norway is being kept in a secure
psychiatric institution for mental health checks.A court ruled that Espen Andersen Brathen, a 37-year-old Danish citizen and Muslim convert, could be kept for four weeks in pre-trial detention.
Investigators say he has confessed to Wednesday's deadly attack in Kongsberg, a town 68km (43 miles) west of the capital Oslo.
The attack killed four women and a man.
The victims, apparently targeted at random, were aged between 50 and 70. Three others, including an off-duty police officer, were wounded.
"The hypothesis that has been strengthened the most in the first days of the investigation is that the background is illness," said police inspector Per Thomas Omholt.
If psychiatrists determine that he is mentally ill, he could be confined to psychiatric care rather than face a possible prison term.Muslim terrorist - Espen Andersen Brathen.