Norway Bus Stabbings Leave Three Dead A man has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing three people to death and hijacking a bus in Norway. The suspect - thought to have been a passenger on the vehicle - is said to have attacked two passengers and the bus driver on Monday, just after 5.30pm. Two men and a woman are understood to have died in the incident on Route 53, between Lake Tyin and the village of Ovre Ardal in Sogn and Fjordane county, western Norway. Motorists who saw what was happening and attempted to help were threatened, local media reported. One witness told Norway's TV2 that a man was walking around the inside of the bus with a knife. Police said the suspect was not an ethnic Norwegian but could not give details on where he was from. The motive was not immediately clear, he said. A map showing the location of Tyin, near where the attack happened Emergency services were originally told a bus accident had occurred and rescuers from the fire department were the first to arrive on the scene. Police were called soon after and ordered people nearby to stay inside their cars and lock their doors. Until they declared the scene safe, they were unsure whether the man was acting alone. The suspect, described as a man in his 50s, was at first held by firefighters but later arrested when officers arrived at the scene. Oslo police had feared it was a terrorist incident and prepared to send an anti-terror unit to the scene aboard army helicopters. They called off the deployment after receiving reports that the suspect had been arrested. Local mayor Arild Ingar Lægreid told Bergensavisen website: "It is cruel that such things can happen. I'm shocked. The most important thing now is to take care of the families, and we do the best we can. The bus, operated by Jotunheimen and Valdres, was heading east at the time of the attacks.