Norway Follow-Up: At Least 87 Dead in Oslo Bomb, Utoeya Shootings

Anders BreivikUPDATE 1230 GMT: The youth branch of the ruling Labour Party (AUF) has said it will return to the island of Utoeya, where at least 84 of its members were killed, and continue its summer camp to show it will not yield to terror.

The head of the branch, Eskil Perdersen, said, "[We] will not be silenced. In the face of this heinous and incomprehensible attack, we have this message: AUF and its ideas will survive as they always have. We are not abdicating in the fight for our convictions. We will return to Utoeya."

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UPDATE 0850 GMT: Back from a break to find that Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has appeared again on national TV to offer support for the injuries and families of the dead, although he could not express in words "how much I feel for all those affected....Many of those who lost their lives were persons I know. I know the young people and I know their parents." Stoltenberg said Utoeya Island had been "my youth paradise, and now it's been changed to hell".

Police have said Anders Behring Breivik, the main suspect in both the Utoeya shootings and the Oslo bomb appeared to a "Christian fundamentalist" from his websites. They said, "He is cooperating," while holding open the possibility that more than one shooter was involved.

UPDATE 0725 GMT: Norwegian officials have just held a press conference. The revised death toll is 91 --- 84 from the Utoeya shootings and seven from the explosion. Police are searching the apartment of the suspect in the Utoeya killings, Anders Behring Brevik.
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At least 87 people are confirmed dead in two attacks in Norway on Friday: a bomb outside the Prime Minister's office building in Oslo, following by the shootings at a youth conference of the ruling Labour Party at Utoeya, 20 miles away.

Much initial speculation was that an Islamic group or individual was responsible for the attacks --- EA, while not raising this speculation in the LiveBlog, considered the possibility in a separate analysis. However, the man held for the Utoeya shootings is a 32-year-old Norwegian, Anders Behring Brevik.

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Brevik was reportedly dressed in police uniform as he opened fire at the camp, sending delegates fleeing into the sea around the island. He continued to shoot at people in the water, and police say undetonated explosives were also found on the island.

Police say the suspect had been seen in Oslo before the earlier bombing.

Last night, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, who was due to attend the youth camp today, refused to speculate on who was behind the bombing. Instead, he told the nation,"I have a message to the one who attacked us and those who were behind this. No one will bomb us to silence, no one will shoot us to silence."