Police in Norway have arrested a man believed to be connected to the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement after he hijacked an ambulance and ran amok through northern Oslo, driving up onto the pavement, hitting pedestrians.

During the 15-minute rampage, the 32 year old hit a pushchair carrying seven-month-old twins and narrowly missed an elderly couple. Thankfully none of the victims were seriously injured.

"The perpetrator hijacked the ambulance with a shotgun and tried to escape. He deliberately drove the car up onto the pavement to hit random people, and also tried to hit a police car," Johan Fredriksen, operations chief at the Oslo Police told Norway's public broadcaster NRK.

He said the police had tried and failed to stop the ambulance three times by firing off shots before it was halted. It then crashed into a gate by a building, after which eyewitnesses said police smashed the windscreen and pulled the man from inside.

Images showed that the ambulance had several bullet holes in the front left door.