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    AT LEAST 91 DEAD IN NORWAY SHOOTING, BOMB ATTACK

    armradio.am
    23.07.2011 12:03

    A suspected right-wing Christian gunman in police uniform killed
    at least 84 people in a ferocious attack on a youth summer camp of
    Norway's ruling Labor party, hours after a bomb killed seven in Oslo.

    Witnesses said the gunman, identified by police as a 32-year-old
    Norwegian, moved across the small, wooded Utoeya holiday island on
    Friday firing at random as young people scattered in fear.

    Police detained the tall, blond suspect, named by local media as
    Anders Behring Breivik, and charged him for the island killing spree
    and the Oslo bomb blast.

    Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, capturing the shock the attacks
    have caused in this normally quiet nation of 4.8 million, said:
    "A paradise island has been transformed into a hell."

    Teenagers at the lakeside camp fled screaming in panic, many leaping
    into the water to save themselves, when the assailant began spraying
    them with gunfire, witnesses said.

    Many sought shelter in buildings as shots echoed across the island that
    was hosting the annual camp for the youth wing of the Labor Party,
    the dominant force in politics since World War Two. Others fled into
    the woods or tried to swim to safety.

    The bomb, which shook Oslo's center in mid-afternoon, blew out the
    windows of the prime minister's building and damaged the finance and
    oil ministry buildings.

    Police found undetonated explosives on Utoeya, a pine-clad island
    about 500 meters long, the Reuters reports.

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