Norway shooting gay club

Topic: Shootings. Police said the suspected perpetrator was apprehended soon gay the attack gay. Terrified revellers at a gay bar in Oslo hid norway a basement and desperately called loved ones as a gunman went on the rampage, killing two people and injuring club than 20 on the day the city was due to celebrate its annual Pride parade.

The attack took place in the early hours of Saturday, with victims shot inside and outside the London Pub, a longstanding hub of Oslo's LGBTQ scene, as well as in the surrounding streets and at one other bar in the centre of the Norwegian capital. Bili Blum-Jansen, who was in the London Pub, said he fled to the basement to escape the hail of bullets and hid there along with 80 to other people.

Others helped calm down those who were extremely terrified," he told TV2. There was no way out. Norwegian police say they are investigating as a case of possible terrorism. A suspect, a year-old Norwegian citizen of Iranian origin, was detained minutes after embarking on the shooting spree, according to police who said they believed he acted alone.

Two weapons, including a fully automatic gun, were retrieved from the crime scene, they added. The suspect, who was known to shootings, is believed to be a radicalised Islamist who has a history of mental illness, Norway's PST intelligence service later club. The shooting occurred hours before Oslo's annual pride parade was scheduled to take place.

Other witnesses described the chaos that erupted inside and outside the London Pub, which has been open since Journalist Olav Roenneberg of public broadcaster NRK said he was in the area at the time and saw a man arrive with a bag, take out a gun and start to shoot. Authorities said that the attack was also being investigated as a possible act of terrorism and said they did not rule out mental illness being a factor.

Emergency responders gathered outside the London Pub in response to the shooting. Norwegian police, who are not normally armed, will now carry guns until further notice as a precaution, national chief Benedicte Bjoernland said. Norway's PST intelligence service norway that it was investigating whether there could be further attacks but that currently there was no indication of that.

The organisers of Oslo Pride cancelled Saturday's parade, citing police advice. Still, several thousand people began what appeared to be a spontaneous march in central Oslo, waving rainbow flags and chanting in English: "We're here, we're queer, we won't disappear. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said in a Facebook shooting that "the shooting outside London Pub in Oslo tonight was a cruel and deeply shocking attack on innocent people.

Oslo shooting: Norway attack being treated as Islamist terrorism, police say

He said that while the motive was unclear, the shooting had caused fear and grief in the LGBTQ community. The shooting took place just months after Norway marked 50 years since the abolition of a law that criminalised gay sex. The suspect was known to authorities, including for violence of a less severe nature, police said.

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Key points: The attack occurred early Saturday morning at two bars including the London Pub, a longstanding hub of Oslo's LGBTQ scene Police have arrested a year-old Norwegian citizen originally from Iran and are investigating the incident as a possible act of terrorism Oslo's annual Pride parade was cancelled on the advice of police, but thousands showed up in protest waving rainbow flags.