Child killed, four hurt in family brawl (Norway)

http://www.newsinenglish.no ^

[marthemaria]

UPDATED: A family brawl among 10 people at Ellingsrud in northeast Oslo left a two-year-old girl dead, one critically injured and three others wounded on Friday night. Police arrested several people at the scene of what was described as a massive knife fight.

The fight was reported shortly before 5pm, police told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK). Details were sketchy in initial reports from the scene, with one person reported dead and three persons said to be critically injured.

It wasn’t until later that police confirmed that the victim of the deadly brawl that shocked the Ellingsrud neighbourhood was the two-year-old daughter of a man from Afghanistan who had been ordered to leave Norway more than a year ago. “We can’t say anything more about that case, but we know he was supposed to have left Norway by February 7, 2013,” Kari Janne Lid of the Oslo Police District told state broadcaster NRK.

The 35-year-old defendant has now been charged with the premeditated murder of his two-year-old daughter. The child’s mother, an Iraqi with Norwegian citizenship, and her mother were among those injured in the brawl and both were admitted to hospital. Another close relative remained in critical condition on Saturday, while the young victim’s uncle was also in the hospital with stab wounds.

A firearm pulled out during the fight was seized by police, and turned out to be a model gun.

Motive unclear Police said on Saturday that they still had not clarified a motive for the violence. The Afghan charged with murdering his daughter suffered minor injuries and was under arrest. His defense attorney had still not spoken with him as of Saturday afternoon.

Shocked neighbours laid down flowers and lit candles at the scene of the brawl outside a large multifamily apartment house on Dragonstien at Ellingsrud.

[VerySadAmerican]

I suspected this was going to involve muslims when I read the headline.