Showing posts with label oslo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oslo. Show all posts

Friday, July 22, 2011

oslo norway a largest bomb attack

Oslo is known as a peaceful place. In recent years the Scandinavian country has not been the victim of violent political or terrorist plots…until now.
there has been a horrific bomb attack in the center of Oslo, Norway and a shooting spree in a Norwegian summer camp:The blast blew out most windows on the 17-storey building housing Stoltenberg's office, as well as nearby ministries including the oil ministry, which was on fire.Elise said she had just come out from an information meeting in a nearby building when she heard gunshots. She saw a police officer and thought she was safe, but then he started shooting.

"He first shot people on the island. Afterward he started shooting people in the water," she said.killing at least 80 people (police officials previously reported at least 10 casualties, one thing more which is from the news reporter that ,Police have arrested a Norwegian man for the deadly attack at the summer youth camp run by Norway's ruling party, and they believed the same man was responsible for a bombing at a government building in central Oslo several hours earlier that claimed at least seven lives.

Norway,Oslo;Several shot dead in Oslo bomb kills

A government spokeswoman in Norway says the country's prime minister is safe,
OSLO - Several people have been killed after a shooting at a Labor party youth camp outside Oslo,
In Oslo, a massive bomb shattered Norway's main government building several hours earlier, killing two people, police said.
One person arrested in camp shooting Norway's PM, whose office is in targeted building, is reported to be safe; at least 15 injured in suspected car bomb; no claims of responsibility.
Well it’s quite shocking, it seems unreal that places here would be targeted by bombs. Apparently the prime minister is in safety and unharmed according to media reports here. The areas that have been hit, such as the government HQ looks like an urban warzone, glass lies scattered all over the streets and a building is on fire, from what I can see on the television.

Norway shooting at a youth camp

Large explosions have rocked the capital of Norway around 3pm today.
They are assumed to be terrorist attacks, though no group has yet claimed responsibility.
The reports are firm enough now to suggest that there has been a second attack in Norway, a shooting at a youth camp of the ruling Labour Party. Details remain sketchy. State TV says 5 injured, according to Reuters. Other accounts say a man wearing a police uniform opened fire at the camp. It's not clear that this incident is even over yet. Ongoing coverage here.
OSLO, Norway - A man dressed in a police uniform opened fire at a youth camp sponsored by the ruling Labor Party, today with perhaps five people wounded - shortly after a bomb exploded at the offices of the prime ministerPolice told broadcaster NRK that an arrest has been made on Utoya, an island in Tyrifjorden, about an hour's drive from Oslo. There has also been a shooting at a summer camp run by the Labor Party in Utøya. Reports right now say that four people may be dead. Norway's former prime minister was scheduled to speak at the camp today.Norway Labor Party spokesman tells AP several people shot at youth camp outside Oslo