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Victims identified, but no suspects in Norway school deaths

As of Tuesday morning, police in Kristiansand had not arrested or charged anyone with the the stabbing attack that killed two people at the Wilds Minne primary school on Monday.

Victims identified, but no suspects in Norway school deaths
Police were still looking for a suspect on Tuesday morning, as makeshift memorials to the victims were placed at the school. Photo: Ole Berg-Rusten/ NTB Scanpix Foto: Ole Berg-Rusten / NTB Scanpix
The two victims have been identified as a Jakob Abdullahi Hassan, a 14-year-old boy who was a ninth grade student at the Fiskå school in Kristiansand, and Tone Illebekk, a 48-year-old woman who worked at a local daycare. 
 
Illebekk leaves behind two children. Police said she was an ethnic Norwegian. 
 
Hassan was born and raised in Norway with Somali heritage. 
 
Police do not believe that the two victims have any relation to each other. 
 
On Tuesday morning, Agder Police said they have committed all available resources to the case but have not identified any suspects. 
 
“We are working hard and broadly on several fronts. But so far we have no one who stands out as a suspect in the case. Several people were brought in for questioning throughout Monday evening and night, but it has so far not led to a breakthrough in the case,” police spokesman Terje Kaddeberg Skaar said. 
 
According to broadcaster NRK, five of the boy's friends are among those who have spoken with police. 
 
Police are still asking for tips from the public.
 
“We have no exact time for when the stabbing took place, but we are interested in information and witness sightings around Wilds Minne School in the period just before and after 4pm,” Skaar said. 
 
Police were notified of the stabbings at 4.10pm. The first reports were that a woman and a child were stabbed, and that both were taken to the Hospital of Southern Norway with serious injuries.
 
The woman was declared dead at 5.46pm and the boy died about 15 minutes later, police said. 
 
Wilds Minne School official Anne Marie Mauland Mansoor told Fædrelandsvennen that no students were directly involved in the incident nor witnessed the fatal stabbings. 

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Driver in Norway jailed after 25 speeding tickets in 19 days

A Frenchman who had been in Norway for just over a month has been handed a 21-day prison sentence for amassing 25 speeding tickets in 19 days.

Driver in Norway jailed after 25 speeding tickets in 19 days

The 23-year-old, who travelled to Norway in search of a job according to local media, was caught speeding 25 times between February 6 and 25.

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The worst infraction was on February 20, when he was caught at the wheel of a Kia driving 113 kilometres per hour (70 mph) in a zone with a speed limit of 70 km/h, according to a court ruling seen by AFP on Monday.

The man “represents a danger in traffic”, the Oslo district court said.

According to daily Aftenposten, most of his infractions were registered by fixed speed cameras, whose existence he was not aware of. The man had his sentence reduced by three days, from 24 to 21, due to his full confession.

But he will have to manage for a while without his driver’s licence, which the court suspended for a year.

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