Bus hijacking in Norway leaves three people dead Three people were killed Monday when a man armed with a knife hijacked a bus in western Norway, local police said. Three people were killed in Norway after a man carrying a knife hijacked their bus. Police said a man in his 50s of ""foreign ethnicity"" had been apprehended, according to a statement. Emergency services received a call at 5.35pm local time after the Valdres Express bus was hijacked, police said. The man was caught at 6.57pm by fire fighters, Joern Lasse Foerde Refsnes, a police official, told broadcaster TV2. Norwegians are still struggling to come to terms with the July 2011 hate killings carried out by Anders Behring Breivik, who left 77 people dead in twin attacks that targeted the Labor Party of former Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. In elections two years later, voters backed the Conservative-led coalition of Erna Solberg, in part after she promised more police control to protect citizens. The bus hijacked on Monday, which wasn't carrying any other passengers, had been on its way to Oslo from Aardalstangen, police said. The bus belongs to Jotunheimen and Valdres bilselskap. A crisis centre has been established at the village of Aardalstangen, police said. A similar attack took place in Norway 10 years ago on the same bus route, in which the driver and a passenger were also stabbed to death. ""The fact that we have to go through this a second time in 10 years is terribly tragic,"" Bjoern Ragnar Oestbye, a representative of Norway bussekspress, the company that runs the route, told Bergens Tidende.