OSLO—A man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stabbing five people to death and attempting to murder 11 with a bow and arrow, attacks that spread fear across a small town in Norway in October last year.
The rampage through Kongsberg, 40 miles west of the capital Oslo, lasted more than half an hour, as the attacker randomly targeted people in their homes, on the streets, and in a store while narrowly missing others, prosecutors said.
The accused, Espen Andersen Braathen, 38, a Dane who has lived his whole life in Norway, suffered from mental illness at the time of the attacks and should be sentenced to psychiatric care, rather than prison, prosecutors said….