Another local resident, who lives above the supermarket where Brathen began the attack, said she was walking up a road when the off-duty officer “ran up to me and shouted, ‘You must go away, you must go away! There is a man inside attacking people.'”
Per Thomas Omholt, head of the regional police, said: “At this point we can’t say much about the officer, it is a rare case in which a police officer becomes a victim in such a case.
“What we can say is that he did a very good job, and helped many people out of the store when the attack took place.”
Mr Villarroel said he spent Friday evening celebrating the fact that he survived with his family.
“It’s been incredibly hard on them,” he said. “I have five children, and they found out that I had been wounded in the attack from watching the news. It is a weird moment, being thankful I survived while mourning for the others killed in Kongsberg.”
