Tragedy in Norway
Last Friday in central Oslo, Norway, a massive explosion ripped through government buildings and sent debris flying through the streets, killing eight people and wounding 15. Some 90 minutes later, Anders Behring Breivik, the man accused of building and detonating that bomb, boarded a ferry to a small island that was hosting a Labour Party youth camp. Breivik, reportedly dressed as a policeman, lured the young campers close and opened fire. The shooting spree went on for more than an hour. By the time police finally arrived and arrested Breivik, at least 68 of the campers had been killed. Norway spent the weekend in mourning, and the country will face more difficulty in the weeks ahead as funerals and criminal proceedings take place. Collected below are a few images of these tragic events in Norway.
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- Debris covers the area outside a building in the center of Oslo, on Friday July 22, 2011, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering windows and covering the street with documents. #AP Photo/Fartein Rudjord
- This image taken from a helicopter shows what the police believe is gunman Anders Behring Breivik, walking with a gun in hand among bodies on Utoya island, on July 22, 2011. Image pixelated at source. #Reuters/Marius Arnesen/NRK/Scanpix
- Members of Norwegian Special Forces land by boat on the shore of Utoya island on July 22, 2011, after a shooting took place at a meeting of the youth wing of Norway's ruling Labour Party. #Reuters/Jan Bjerkeli
- Wounded people are brought ashore opposite Utoya island (background) after being rescued from a gunman who went on a killing rampage targeting participants in a Norwegian Labour Party youth organization event on the island, on July 22 , 2011. #Svein Gustav Wilhelmsen/AFP/Getty Images
- Covered bodies lie next to a small structure on the shore of the island of Utoya, on July 23, 2011, after a gunman in police uniform killed at least 86 people in a ferocious attack on a youth summer camp of Norway's ruling Labour party, and hours after a bomb killed seven in Oslo. #Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch
- People rest their hands on a woman as they console her before the start of a service at Oslo Cathedral in the aftermath of the Friday attacks on Norway's government headquarters and a youth retreat in Oslo, on July 24, 2011. #AP Photo/Matt Dunham
- People in Oslo crowd around a flower tribute to the victims of a bomb explosion which ripped through government buildings and the shooting spree at the youth camp of the Norwegian Labour Party, two days ago, on July 24, 2011. #Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images
- Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Crown Prince Haakon speak to the media after visiting youths injured in the Utoya island shooting massacre at Ringerike hospital in Sundvolden, on July 24, 2011. #Reuters/Trond Reidar Teigen/Scanpix
- Friends and loved ones gather at the Oslo cathedral to mourn 93 victims killed in twin terror attacks from a bombing in downtown Oslo and a mass shooting on Utoya island on July 24, 2011. #Paula Bronstein/Getty Images
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