What the hell?Twenty-three people were wounded when a gang of 40-50 men armed with steel bars and machetes attacked residents at a refugee centre in Norway late on Thursday, officials said on Friday.
No one was seriously wounded, but 10 were sent to hospital and 13 treated at a local clinic, hospital officials said.
An official at the centre in Oestfold south of Oslo said the attackers were Chechens and the victims Kurds. Police declined to confirm or deny that and said they had made no arrests so far.
"There was an attack from outside the asylum centre by people who don't live here, Chechens, 40 to 50 men armed with steel bars and other weapons," Ole Morten Lyng, an official at the centre, told NRK public radio news.
"There also seem to have been knives involved," Lyng said. "They went into the rooms and pulled out Kurds and beat them up."
A police officer said some of the attackers had machetes.
Lyng told Norwegian news agency NTB that the conflict stemmed from a minor dispute between Kurds and Chechens at the centre that got blown out of proportion.
23 wounded in Norway refugee centre attack
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Oh yeah that, investigation into the incident is going slowly because most of the police officers are on vacation. I guess we'll find out more come autumn.
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Is that a joke? I mean I'm not claiming US cops don't take vacations, but I've never heard of so many being allowed to take vacations at once that it impedes operations.nvestigation into the incident is going slowly because most of the police officers are on vacation.
"it takes two sides to end a war but only one to start one. And those who do not have swords may still die upon them." Tolken
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No it was in the newspapers, basically they have trouble running the investigation because there's so many cops on vacation. That incidentally is also true for a lot of other investigations, and for various hospitals etc.frigidmagi wrote:Is that a joke? I mean I'm not claiming US cops don't take vacations, but I've never heard of so many being allowed to take vacations at once that it impedes operations.nvestigation into the incident is going slowly because most of the police officers are on vacation.
Basically if you're in Norway don't get sick or mugged in July/August.