Here are armed hostage taker overpowered by police – TV 2

Police IFIKK message about the situation at a gas station in Drammen clock 5:03 Saturday morning.

– It was a mugger with a knife who held an employee at the gas station hostage, said operations manager Marianne Dark in Southern Buskerud Police District.

She explains that it is unclear what the alleged robber would.

– We do not know the background for the robbery and it is unclear whether he was aiming to acquire money, says Dark TV2.

The clock 05.27 robber arrested. The arrest is the eyewitnesses described as dramatic.

A video TV2 has gained access to show that the man, while a number of police officers remains hidden behind a building wall corner, coming out with it female hostage in front of him.

– It was a relatively dramatic arrest since the man was armed with a knife and had a hostage, says operational manager Dark.

hostage came from the event without physical damage, while the perpetrator Saturday morning was sent to medical treatment.

– The offender is in the emergency room for investigations, both to identify his mental state and because of some self-inflicted injury he had before.

The offender is in his early twenties and from the frame area.