Man hijacked bus in Oslo
Police got into an armed confrontation early Tuesday with a man who hijacked a bus and then claimed he'd murdered his wife.
 The knife-wielding man was taken into police custody. PHOTO: SVEIN GUSTAV WILHELMSEN |
The drama started around 6:30am, when a bus driver called police to say a man had boarded his bus and then threatened him with a knife near the eastside intersection Carl Berners Plass.
The man forced the driver to take another route, but by the time police caught up with the bus, he had ordered it to a halt and jumped off.
He then climbed up on some scaffolding around a nearby building on Trondheimsveien while police assembled on the street. He entered into a dialogue with police, claiming first that he'd killed his wife.
"He later corrected himself, saying he'd seen his wife lying dead in an apartment," said Per Olav Utgård of the Oslo Police District.
Their dialogue with the man continued, even as he threw several objects down from his perch on the scaffolding. He eventually climbed down and turned himself over to police.
When police went to the apartment to which the man had referred, it was empty and no dead woman was found. Police then checked all the apartments in the building, but found no body. The man was taken into police custody.
"It can appear he's psychologically unbalanced," Frode Romsloe of the Oslo Police District told Aftenposten.no. He added that the man, whose identity wasn't released, is not registered as being married.
No one was physically injured in the incident.
Nina Berglund
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