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Death Toll Rises to 91 in Norway Attacks
The police said they did not know if the man, identified by the Norwegian media as Anders Behring Breivik, was part of a larger conspiracy. He is being questioned under the country’s terrorism laws, the police said, and is cooperating with the investigation <a href="http://www.vibramfive-fingersshoes.com/vibram-five-fingers-women-vibram-five-fingers-sprint-c-22_32.html"><strong>Vibram Five Fingers Sprint</strong></a> of the attacks, the deadliest on Norwegian soil since World War II. Some witnesses to the shooting on the island raised the possibility of a second gunman, but police could not confirmed the reports. Still, they did not rule out the possibility. “We are not sure whether he was alone or had help,” a police official, Roger Andresen, said at a televised news conference. “What we know is that he is right-wing and a Christian fundamentalist.” So far Mr. Breivik has not been linked to any anti-jihadist groups, he said. On Saturday, King Harald and Queen Sonja met with survivors of the camp shooting and their family members at a hotel outside Oslo. The prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, who also met with survivors on Saturday, would not speculate on a motive for the attacks. “Compared to other countries I wouldn’t say we have a big problem with right-wing extremists in Norway,” Mr. Stoltenberg told reporters at a news conference. “But we have had some groups, we have followed them before, and our police is aware that there are some right-wing groups.” As details of the shooting continued to unfold, soldiers arrived in Oslo on Saturday to secure government buildings. The explosions here, from one or more bombs, turned the tidy Scandinavian capital into a scene reminiscent of terrorist attacks in Baghdad or Oklahoma City, panicking people and blowing out the windows of government buildings, including one that housed the office of the prime minister. Even as the police locked down a large area of the city after the blast, <a href="http://www.suprasforcheap.com/supra-ii-9049-mens-womens-shoes-white-p-152.html"><strong>supra II 9049 mens & womens shoes white</strong></a> the suspect, dressed as a police officer, entered the youth camp on the island of Utoya, about 19 miles northwest of Oslo, a Norwegian security official said, and opened fire. “He said it was a routine check in connection with the terror attack in Oslo,” one witness told VG Nett, the Web site of a national newspaper. The police said the suspect had used “a machine pistol” in the attack, but declined to provide additional details. At least 84 people, some as young as 16, were killed on the island, the <a href="http://www.blackugg-boots.com/chocolate-ugg-kids-classic-boots-p-44.html"><strong>chocolate Ugg Kid'S Classic Boots</strong></a> police said Saturday on national television. The death toll could rise as they continue to search for bodies in the waters around the island. In a news conference on Saturday, the Norwegian foreign minister, Jonas Gahr Store, confirmed that former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Bruntland had made a speech on Utoya hours before the shooting. Adrian Pracon, who had been working in an information booth on the island, told the BBC that almost everyone on Utoya — about 700 people — had gathered after reports of the Oslo bombing. It was at that point, Mr. Pracon told the BBC, that a man in a police uniform arrived on the island and opened fire on the group. “People were falling dead right in front of me,” Mr. Pracon said. “I ran through the campus to the tent area. I <a href="http://jamianhudson.com/displayimage.php?pos=-126"><strong>HKD/TRY</strong></a> saw the gunman — two people started to talk to him and two seconds later they were both shot.” He described the gunman as “sure, calm and controlled.” “He screamed at us that we would all die,” Mr. Pracon said. Terrified youths jumped into the water and “started to swim in a panic, and Utoya is far from the mainland,” said Bjorn Jarle Roberg-Larsen, a Labor Party member who spoke by phone with teenagers on the island, which has no bridge to the mainland. “Others are hiding. Those I spoke with don’t want to talk more. They’re scared to death.” Many could not flee in time. “He first shot people on the island,” a 15-year-old camper named Elise told The Associated Press. “Afterward he started shooting people in the water.” Mr. Pracon said he also jumped into the water, but realized he could not reach the mainland and turned back.
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