Stockholm attack: Norway police to carry weapons at Oslo airport and main cities

Candles and flowers near the site where a beer truck crashed into the Ahlens department store after plowing down the Drottninggatan Street in central Stockholm, Sweden, on April 7, 2017. PHOTO: EPA

OSLO (Reuters) - Police in Norway's largest cities and at Oslo's airport will be carrying weapons until further notice following an attack in Stockholm on Friday (April 7), Norwegian police said in a tweet.

Police officers in Norway, which borders Sweden, do not usually carry guns on them.

In Finland, police increased patrols in the capital Helsinki.

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