Norway mosque shooter who killed sister had racist motive: Police

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A Norwegian man accused of killing his step-sister before opening fire in a mosque near Oslo in August had racist motives, police said on Tuesday ...

OSLO: A Norwegian man accused of killing his step-sister before opening fire in a mosque near Oslo in August had racist motives, police said on Tuesday , confirming he shot her because of her Chinese origin.in an affluent Oslo suburb on Aug 10 before he was overpowered by a 65-year-old man.Just three worshippers were in the mosque at the time, and there were no serious injuries.

Manshaus' explanation and technical evidence, including the lack of a struggle,"support the version that she was killed because of what the attacker considers as race, because she was of Asian origin," police official Pal-Fredrik Hjort Kraby told TV2.Police had until now been considering two possible motives for her murder: that of a racist crime, and that she may have found out about his plan for the mosque shooting and tried to stop him.

 

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