Norway Follow-Up: At Least 87 Dead in Oslo Bomb, Utoeya Shootings
Saturday, July 23, 2011 at 7:08
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."
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.