LAST: Perpetrator has been arrested, control at the scene, the police report.
On Saturday evening there was a police operation in the center of Egersund, after shots were fired at a taxi.
The Sør-Vest police reported on Saturday evening that a taxi with a customer on board was fired upon when it arrived at an address near the center of Egersund. The man who shot came out of an address, and went back in afterwards.
Police previously asked, while the situation was ongoing, people nearby of Øvre Prestegårdsvei in Egersund to stay inside and lock the door.
It was at 10 p.m. that Sør-Vest police district reported on X that a taxi had been shot at in the center of Egersund.
– Greater police resources are on their way to an address close to the city centre, they wrote.
A route on the taxi is broken after the incident.
– Got the kids away
Dagbladet has spoken to a man who lives close to the man who has now been arrested. He says that the alleged perpetrator was just taken into a police car.
– The police were here for quite a while, but eventually they came out with him, says the neighbour, who lives in the same street.
– Of course we found it uncomfortable. I stood talking to the taxi driver, and then the perpetrator came out again, and then I went in and locked the door, and got the children away from the window, says the neighbour.
Police urged people nearby to stay indoors and lock their doors. The man tells Dagbladet that they were “locked in” for 45 minutes.
No personal injury
The passenger in the car in question must have made it to safety, and the taxi driver must have driven away.
No injuries have been reported to the parties involved.
– The customer who was in the car must be on foot, and probably safe. No reports as of now that any people have been injured, the police reported while it was going on.
The police first reported that they isolated the house, while the perpetrator was inside the address. The police negotiator was then in dialogue with the man by phone, the police in Sør-Vest reported at quarter to eleven on Saturday evening.
2023-11-25 22:30:00
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