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Oslo attacks shock Norway

Ka Leo staff writer Morgan Carmody is currently studying in Oslo, and wrote this report based on her experiences. MORGAN CARMODY Staff Writer

At 3:26 p.m. on July 22, an explosion in the center of Oslo rocked the peaceful country of Norway. Just 94 minutes later, a lone gunman began a massacre on Utoeya Island, roughly 23 miles away. Few immediately knew what had happened. “ W hen I heard the blast, I thought it was thunder so I unplugged all of the televisions,â€? said resident Vigdis Teig Gautvik, who works at the Universitet I Oslo. Ole Gautvik, a student, stated, “When I ďŹ rst heard about it I thought it could be a gas explosion, but then the more I thought about it I realized there was no gas lines around there.â€? As Einar Vannebo, director of the International Summer School at the university, explained, “It was very unexpected; we weren’t really prepared for it. The terror threat was rated very low here. The image we have of Norway is one of a safe place, and it is so deeply rooted, then this happens. It is just disbelief.

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150,000 people gathered at the city hall of Radhus to remember those that perished in the attacks. MORGAN CARMODY / KA LEO O HAWAI‘I

You can’t really believe it. A fter that the next stage you reach is just numbness.� As Jef f Lugowe, a Scandinavian politics course leader at the IS S, explained, Nor way has less than 5 million people, so the impact is ver y grave. He described the proportion of the death toll to the rest of the pop ulation as if about seven 9/11s had occurred.

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government building where the prime minister’s ofďŹ ce and headquarters for the ruling Arbeiderpartiet, or Labor Party, are located. The blast killed seven people. Although the incident occurred in the middle of the afternoon on a weekday, many Norwegians take vacations in July, thus reducing the death toll. By 5:27 p.m., police in Buskerud received notice of the shooting on the island of Utoeya, where the Labor Party youth league was holding a summer camp. Sus-

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pect Anders Behring Breivik arrived on the island dressed as a police ofďŹ cer and opened ďŹ re on the camp, killing 68 and injuring more. By 5:30 p.m., the Oslo police force received an assistance request from Buskerud Police District. At 5:52 p.m., the first police patrol arrived, but their boat was overloaded and began taking on water, forcing them to wait for another watercraft. At 6:25 p.m., the Analyzing Oslo, page 3

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