An armed man stole an ambulance in Oslo today and ran down several pedestrians including twin babies in a pushchair before being shot by police.
The suspect is thought to have stolen an emergency vehicle before he was stopped in his rampage following a gun battle with police.
Hero paramedics rammed the ambulance before the driver was shot by officers, according to local media.
Police said they were searching for a second suspect – a woman ‘who appears to be under the influence’ – who was thought to be involved in the incident.
A number of people were hit, including a woman holding a pushchair, shortly after 12.30pm today before Norwegian officers fired at the vehicle and arrested the driver, who was not critically injured.
It is not known at this stage if the incident is terror related or not.
An was seen being arrested by police officers near a crash ambulance in Oslo. Police said an armed man was shot after stealing an emergency vehicle and hitting pedestrians
An armed man who stole an ambulance in Oslo and ran down several people including twin babies in a pushchair has been shot by police
Footage showed an ambulance driving in the Torshov neighbourhood of Oslo while several gunshots rang out.
Images on local TV showed an overturned pram lying by an upturned traffic sign.
Police shot at the tyres of the ambulance and the driver fired back, witnesses told Norwegian broadcaster NRK.
The suspect is thought to have crashed his car, then when an ambulance arrived at the scene, crawled from the upturned wreckage and stole the emergency vehicle, according to police.
After fleeing initial crash he reportedly then struck several people, including a pushchair with seven-month-old twin babies inside, who were with their mother at the time.
Officers had been pursuing the ambulance when it crashed into a gate outside a residential building.
A damaged Mercedes ambulance with what appeared to be several bullet holes in the front left door could be seen at the scene.
Footage showed an ambulance driving in the Torshov neighbourhood of Oslo while several gunshots rang out
A number of people were hit, including twin babies in a pushchair, shortly after 12.30pm today before Norwegian officers fired at the vehicle and arrested the driver, who was not critically injured
‘A woman with a pram and an elderly couple were run over or had to throw themselves out of the way’ of the stolen vehicle, police added in another Twitter post.
An Oslo University hospital spokesman said: ‘Two babies were injured after the hijacked ambulance hit a family. They are twins, seven months old, they are being treated.’
A police spokesman said on Twitter: ‘We are in control of an ambulance that was stolen by an armed man.
‘Shots were fired to stop the perpetrator, he is not critically injured.’
Police declined to comment on reports they are looking for another person and have not said whether the incident was being treated as a deliberate attack.
The also police declined to say how many had been hit by the vehicle or if anyone had died from their injuries.
A man being arrested by the police after the hijacking an ambulance in Oslo. Police say the man took the emergency vehicle after crashing his own car
A damaged ambulance standing next to a building after an armed man who stole the vehicle was apprehended by police in Oslo, Norway, today
‘An armed man stole an ambulance, drove away and hit some people. We got him now,’ the police spokesman told Reuters.
The Aftenposten newspaper published a photo showing a man wearing green trousers, lying next to the vehicle surrounded by police officers.
A witness told the newspaper he saw ‘the ambulance driving at high speed toward me … and right behind a police car’.
‘I heard several shots,’ Omar Khatujev told Aftenposten.
According to TV2, the arrested man was in his 30s.
NRK said police were looking for a woman who may have been involved, but authorities would not confirm the report.
She is described by officers as having fair skin and wearing a black jacket, around 5 feet 4 inches (1.65cm).