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July 23, 2011, 6:50 pm
•'A madman's work'
A blonde Norwegian has been identified as a suspect in the Oslo blasts and the youth camp carnage that has killed at
Twin shooting and bomb attacks have left at least 91 dead in Norway after a gunman disguised as a policeman opened fire at a youth camp and a bomb blast tore through government buildings in Oslo.
Police director Oystein Maeland told reporters early on Saturday they had discovered many more victims at the at the youth camp of Norway's Labour Party after initially reporting the death toll at 10.
"The updated knowledge we are sitting on now is at least 80," Maeland told a news conference. "We can't guarantee that won't increase somewhat," he said, adding some were badly injured.
Hundreds of youth were attending the summer camp organised by the youth wing of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's party on the island of Utoeya when a gunman opened indiscriminate fire.
Police also say seven people were killed in an explosion that ripped through the government buildings in the heart of Oslo.
It took investigators several hours to begin the realise the full scope of Friday's massacre and blasts that police say was set off by the same man.
A suspect has been arrested and though police did not release his name, Norwegian national broadcaster NRK identified him as 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik and said police searched his Oslo apartment overnight.
NRK and other Norwegian media posted pictures of the blond, blue-eyed Norwegian.
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A police official said the 32-year-old suspect arrested at the camp on Utoeya island appears to have acted alone in both attacks, and that "it seems like that this is not linked to any international terrorist organisations at all." The official spoke on condition of anonymity because that information had not been officially released by Norway's police.
"It seems it's not Islamic-terror related," the official said. "This seems like a madman's work."
The police official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the Oslo bombing occurred at 3.26pm local time, and the camp shootings began one to two hours later.
The official said the gunman used both automatic weapons and handguns, and that there was at least one unexploded device at the youth camp that a police bomb disposal team and military experts were working on disarming.
The suspect had only a minor criminal record, the official said.
National police chief Sveinung Sponheim said seven people were killed by the blast in downtown Oslo, four of whom have been identified, and that nine or 10 people were seriously injured.
Sponheim said a man was arrested in the shooting, and the suspect had been observed in Oslo before the explosion there.
Sponheim said the camp shooter "wore a sweater with a police sign on it. I can confirm that he wasn't a police employee and never has been."
In a late night press conference, Prime Minister Stoltenberg said it was too early to speculate to say who was behind the attacks but insisted they would not intimidate one of Europe's most peaceful countries.
"People have lived through a nightmare that very few of us can imagine," he said. "The coming days will show who is responsible and what kind of punishment they will get."
"Norway is a tight-knit small country and when this kind of catastrophe hits us this strengthens our country and that is something that will help us through this difficult time".
"The message to whoever attacked us, the message from all of Norway is that you will not destroy us, you will not destroy our democracy and our ideals for a better world."
The police official said the attack "is probably more Norway's Oklahoma City than it is Norway's World Trade Centre."
Domestic terrorists carried out the 1995 attack on a federal building in Oklahoma City, while foreign terrorists were responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The United States and European leaders immediately denounced the attacks and vowed solidarity with NATO member Norway - an enthusiastic participant in international military missions that has forces in Afghanistan and is participating in Western air strikes in Libya.
The shootings took place at a youth camp on Utoeya, an island just outside Oslo where Stoltenberg had been due to give a speech on Saturday to the 560 people attending.
Witnesses describe horror, chaos
Witnesses described scenes of panic and horror after the gunman, who police said was disguised as a police officer but never worked for the police force, opened fire on the youth gathering.
"I saw a lot of people running and screaming, I ran to the nearest building and hid under a bed," Emilie Bersaas, 19, told Britain's Sky News.
"It was very terrifying. At one point the shooting was very close to the building, it actually hit the building, the people in the next room screamed."
"It is kind of unreal, especially in Norway," Bersaas said. "This is something we hear about happening in the US."
A 15-year-old camper named Elise said she heard gunshots, but then saw a police officer and thought she was safe. Then he started shooting people right before her eyes.
"I saw many dead people," said Elise, whose father, Vidar Myhre, didn't want her to disclose her last name. "He first shot people on the island. Afterward he started shooting people in the water."
Elise said she hid behind the same rock that the killer was standing on. "I could hear his breathing from the top of the rock," she said.
She said it was impossible to say how many minutes passed while she was waiting for him to stop
Norwegian police said they feared there could also be explosives on the island.
Aerial images broadcast by Norway's TV2 showed members of a SWAT team dressed in black arriving at the island in boats and running up the dock. Behind them, people who stripped down to their underwear swam away from the island toward shore, some using flotation devices.
Sponheim said police were still trying to get an overview of the camp shooting and could not say whether there was more than one shooter. He said several people were injured but he could not comment on their conditions.
Reports of the island shooting emerged shortly after a blast tore through the government quarter in central Oslo, home to the prime minister's office, other ministries and some of the country's leading media.
Most of the windows in the 20-floor high-rise where Stoltenberg and his administration work were shattered. Other buildings damaged house government offices and the headquarters of some of Norway's leading newspapers.
"We can confirm that we have seven dead and two have been seriously injured" in the bomb attack, a police spokesman told reporters at a briefing in Oslo. Several dozen were also wounded, police said.
"We have no main theory, we don't even have a working theory," a police official said separately. "We already have enough to do to get an understanding of the situation."
Oslo University Hospital said 12 people were admitted for treatment following the Utoeya shooting, and 11 people were taken there from the explosion in Oslo. The hospital asked people to donate blood.
Stoltenberg, who was home when the blast occurred and was not harmed, visited injured people at the hospital late Friday.
Earlier he decried what he called "a cowardly attack on young innocent civilians."Police said a "bomb" had been behind the "powerful explosion".
Police did say however that they believed the two attacks were connected.
"There are good reasons to believe that there is a link between the events," police commissioner Veining Sondheim told reporters in Oslo.
Oslo's mayor Fabian Stange said the capital was struggling to come to terms with the idea that it had joined the list of cities targeted by bombers.
"Today we think about those people living in New York and London who have experienced this kind of thing," he told Sky.
"I do not think it is possible for us to understand what has happened today but hopefully we will be able to go on and that tomorrow Oslo will be a peaceful city again."
Images on Norwegian television showed the prime minister's office and other buildings heavily damaged, footpaths covered in broken glass and smoke rising from the area.
A police spokesman said a vehicle had been seen driving at high speed in the area just before the explosion but did not confirm that the blast had been caused by a car bomb.
Police had sealed off the area and urged residents to stay in their homes.
The EU condemned the attacks as "acts of cowardice" and the NATO chief denounced them as "heinous".
US President Barack Obama called the attacks "a reminder that the entire international community has a stake in preventing this kind of terror from occurring."
Norway's intelligence police agency (PST) said in February that Islamic extremism was a major threat to the country, describing it as "our main priority and our main concern".
Norway, which counts some 500 troops in Afghanistan, has never suffered an attack at home by Islamic extremists.
However, police last year arrested three Muslim men based in Norway suspected of planning an attack.
Norwegian F-16 fighter jets are also participating in air strikes in Libya, though the country has said it will withdraw its forces from the Libya operations on August 1.
The Norwegian capital is also a well-known symbol of international peace efforts, home to the Nobel Peace Prize and the birthplace of the 1993 Israeli-Palestinian Oslo Accords.
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