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Summary Thousands of Norwegians held a minute's silence to remember the victims of bombing and shooting.
Norways king and queen join the prime minister in mourning, as the country holds a minutes silence to remember the victims of Fridays bombing and mass shooting.Thousands of Norwegians held a minutes silence to remember the victims of an anti-immigration killer who stunned the normally peaceful nation with a bomb and gun attack.A muffled ripple of applause spread through the crowd as King Harald arrived at Oslo University to sign a book of remembrance, before he and Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg climbed the steps of the neo-classical building, and faced the crowd standing hushed in the summer drizzle.In remembrance of the victims ... I declare one minutes national silence, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said, standing dressed in black on the steps next to the king and queen, the whole group flanked by two burning torches.The silence stretched to five minutes as thousands more stood around a carpet of flowers outside the nearby Oslo cathedral. The only sound was the squawking of seagulls and a lone dog barking.Cars stopped in the streets and their drivers got out and stood motionless as traffic lights changed from red to green.Anders Behring Breivik was due in court on Monday after he planted a bomb on July 22 outside Stoltenbergs Oslo office which killed seven, then drove to the island of Utoeya and shot dead 86 at a youth camp of the ruling Labour Party.The 32-year-old Breivik declared in a rambling 1,500-page manifesto posted online shortly before the massacre that he was on a self-appointed mission to save Europe from what he saw as the threats of Islam, immigration and multi-culturalism.Nordic neighbours Sweden, Finland and Denmark also held official minutes silences.
