Norway - Nov. 8, 2013 The Norwegian bus company hit by this week’s fatal hijacking has come under fire after it emerged that it cancelled plans to take a group of asylum seekers to Oslo in the wake of the killing. 3-Norwegians killed by African beast in bus Hi-Jacking who was due for deportation next day A group of seven asylum seekers, due to travel to Oslo for asylum interviews on Tuesday, were prevented from travelling on the Valdres Express after a deal was struck between Nettbus Sogn, the bus’s operator, and Hero Norge, which runs the asylum centre. “Some of the bus drivers were anxious, some of the asylum seekers were anxious, so it was a natural decision in that hour of crisis to postpone the asylum interviews for seven people,” said Tor Brekke, the acting chief executive of Hero Norge. “The bus company had a concern that some drivers didn’t want to be exposed to the asylum seekers in the first hours of the crisis.” Nettbus Sogn operates the Valdres Express, the bus which was hijacked on Monday night by a South Sudanese asylum seeker, who killed the driver and two passengers. “It’s a shock and we are very [...]
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