OSLO: A gunman armed with multiple weapons opened fire in a mosque near the Norwegian capital Oslo on Saturday , injuring one person before being overpowered by an elderly worshipper, police and witnesses said.
Mushtaq told another Norwegian newspaper, VG, that the man had carried multiple weapons, but that he had been subdued by a member of the mosque. He said the man who apparently overpowered the shooter was 75 years old and had been reading the Koran after a prayer session.The Norwegian Police Security Service said it was monitoring the situation.
The al-Noor Islamic centre in Norway shares its name with the worst affected mosque in the New Zealand attacks.
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