In a second New Year terror-related incident in a Nordic country, the 74-year-old graphic artist Kurt Westergaard, who authored one of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons in 2005, was attacked in his home on Friday night by a Somali intruder armed with an axe and a knife, but managed to take refuge in a secure room and activate an alarm which summoned police, the AP reports. According to the BBC, the attacker was shot and wounded by police.
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Gates of Vienna has posted translated excerpts from Danish press reports.
See also: Espoo mall shootings
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