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At least 80 people died when a gunman opened fire at an island youth camp in Norway, hours after a bomb attack on the capital, Oslo, police say
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Police chief Oystein Maeland told a news conference: "We can't guarantee that won't increase", adding the attack had reached "catastrophic dimensions".
Earlier at least seven people were killed after a bomb went off outside the offices of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.
A man is currently being held and questioned after he was taken into custoy on the Island of Utoya where a youth meeting of the ruling Labour Party was taking place.
Around 600 people were believed to be taking part in the summer camp on Utoya - most of whom were teenagers aged between 14 and 18.
Here are some eyewitness accounts of the shooting:
A witness quoted by Norwegian broadcaster NRK said a man in police uniform had called on people to gather round, before opening fire.
The father of a girl attending the summer camp said he had received an SMS that said: "There is gunfire, I am hiding."
"We communicated by SMS," he added. "She told me not to call so as not to give away her hiding place."
Ali Esbati, a Swedish politician of Iranian descent who was at the camp, told the BBC he saw the suspected gunman hours after the shootings began, having been hiding in the woods.
"I jumped into the water like several other people and moved a few metres away and tried to see if he was coming".
A number of witnesses described how terrified campers jumped into the water to escape the indiscriminate gunfire. But the gunman reportedly fired at people swimming away.
"I saw many dead people," youth camp delegate Elise told the Associated Press news agency. "He first shot people on the island. Afterwards he started shooting people in the water."
She said she hid behind the rock the gunman was standing on: "I could hear his breathing from the top of the rock," she said.
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Video footage minutes after the bomb went off in Oslo:
Story still developing....
7:35 PM PT: http://www.stuff.co.nz/...
Its such a tragedy of monumental proportions. My heartfelt sorrow goes out to all Norwegians today...
8:00 PM PT:Independent Norwegian television TV2 reported on Saturday that the Norwegian man detained after the attacks had links to right-wing extremism.
Police were searching a flat in west Oslo where he lived, TV2 said
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8:10 PM PT: http://news.sky.com/...
Sat Jul 23, 2011 at 12:14 AM PT: Oslo police say suspect has been charged for bomb blast and shooting. Also, the combined death toll is now 91 with the toll at the camp at 84