Norwegian terrorist kills at least 80

PanARMENIAN.Net - A Norwegian who dressed as a police officer to gun down summer campers killed at least 80 people at an island retreat, horrified police say.

It took investigators several hours to begin the realise the full scope of Friday’s massacre, which followed an explosion in nearby Oslo that killed seven and that police say was set off by the same suspect.

The mass shootings are among the worst in history. With the blast outside the prime minister’s office, they formed the deadliest day of terror in Western Europe since the 2004 Madrid train bombings killed 191.

Police initially said about 10 were killed at the forested camp on the island of Utoya, but some survivors said they thought the toll was much higher. Police director Oystein Maeland told reporters early on Saturday they had discovered many more victims.

“It’s taken time to search the area. What we know now is that we can say that there are at least 80 killed at Utoeya,” Maeland said. “It goes without saying that this gives dimensions to this incident that are exceptional.”

Maeland said the death toll could rise even more. He said others were severely injured, but police didn’t know how many were hurt.

A suspect in the shootings and the Oslo explosion was arrested. Though police did not release his name, Norwegian national broadcaster NRK identified him as 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik and said police searched his Oslo apartment overnight, AAP reported.