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Summary A shooting rampage at a youth camp in Norway follows bomb blast in Oslo.
At least 80 people are dead as a result of a rampage on a Norwegian island, police said, an attack that came shortly after an explosion killed seven others in the Scandinavian nations capital.That attack and the massive explosion in the heart of Oslo are definitely linked, police said.Seven were killed in the attack in the Norwegian capital, officials said. In all, 90 people were hospitalized as a result of the Oslo blast, said Erik Hansen, a spokesman for Oslo Mayor Fabian Stang.The mass shootings are among the worst in history. With the blast outside the prime ministers office, they formed the deadliest day of terror in Western Europe since the 2004 Madrid train bombings killed 191.A suspect in the shootings and the Oslo explosion was arrested. Though police did not release his name, Norwegian media identified him as 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik and said police searched his Oslo apartment overnight.National police chief Sveinung Sponheim told media that the suspected gunmans Internet postings suggest that he has some political traits directed toward the right, but whether that was a motivation for the actual act remains to be seen.A police official said the suspect appears to have acted alone in both attacks, and that it seems like this is not linked to any international terrorist organizations at all.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, didnt want her to disclose her last name. He first shot people on the island. Afterward he started shooting people in the water.The blast in Oslo, Norways capital and the city where the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded, left a square covered in twisted metal, shattered glass and documents expelled from surrounding buildings.The police official said the Oslo bombing occurred at 3:26 p.m. local time (1:26 p.m. GMT), 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 official said the camp shooter wore a sweater with a police sign on it. I can confirm that he wasnt a police employee and never has been.The suspect had only a minor criminal record, the official said.
