OSLO\u2014 Three brothers have been arrested on suspicion of links to an explosion outside the US embassy in Oslo on Sunday, police said.<\/p>\n
Police prosecutor Christian Hatlo told a press conference on Wednesday that the brothers, who were Norwegian citizens of Iraqi origin, had been arrested in Oslo and that police were investigating the motive.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are still working from several hypotheses. One of them is whether this is an order from a government entity,\u201d Hatlo said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is quite natural given the target \u2014 the US embassy \u2014 and the security situation the world is in today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Hatlo said the investigation would seek to clarify exactly what roles the brothers, who were in their 20s, had played.<\/p>\n
The authorities believe the blast was caused by an improvised device that was placed at the building’s entrance.<\/p>\n
It caused minor damage and no injuries were reported.
Among them is thought to be a suspect police had previously had released images of, broadcaster NRK reported.<\/p>\n
“They are suspected of a terror bombing,” Hatlo said. None of the brothers, who have not been named, were previously known to police.<\/p>\n
The authorities are investigating several theories about the motivation for the attack, including whether a foreign state actor was involved.<\/p>\n
“The most important thing is to get them [the suspects] questioned, then we’ll see what happens,” Hatlo said.<\/p>\n
As well as the images released earlier this week, investigators have also been examining a video published on Google Maps around the time of the incident.<\/p>\n
The now-deleted video featured Iran’s former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, local media reported. He was killed last month during joint US-Israeli strikes on Tehran.<\/p>\n
Dogs, drones and helicopters were used to carry out investigations as the scene of the explosion as police said the investigation into the embassy was being treated as high priority.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were dispatched to the embassy, on Morgedalsvegen Street in the Ullern district of Oslo, at about 02:00 local time (01:00 GMT) on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Following the incident, photos posted on social media showed shattered glass in the snow outside the entrance to the embassy’s consular section, cracks in a glass door and dark marks on a tiled floor.<\/p>\n
Norwegian authorities described the incident as “unacceptable”, with Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide stressing that “the security of diplomatic missions is very important to us”.<\/p>\n
A US State Department spokesperson said it was investigating the incident too. \u2014 Agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSLO\u2014 Three brothers have been arrested on suspicion of links to an explosion outside the US embassy in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[20520,4174,157,156,2498,76,4538],"class_list":{"0":"post-38702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oslo","8":"tag-casualties","9":"tag-middle-east","10":"tag-norway","11":"tag-oslo","12":"tag-terrorist-attack","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-us-embassy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116216774228205375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}