Bombings/shootings in Oslo, Norway

**Randi** · 07-22-2011, 01:30 PM

... and another nearby at a youth camp. At least 7 people have died and lots are seriously injured.

They don't yet know who did it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14254705

http://www.cnn.com/

**sasvermont** · 07-22-2011, 02:04 PM

Oh my gosh. The bomb did lots of damage as well as killing some poor folks. How sad. I will be following it closely as the news unravels. How horrible. I just don't understand humanity some times. What is wrong with man? Always at war, always killing one another. I just don't get it.

**Karen** · 07-22-2011, 05:34 PM

So sad, and I wonder why it happened, I hope we learn more. Those poor people!

**kittycats_delight** · 07-22-2011, 05:43 PM

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/eu...html?hpt=hp_p1

**Lizzie** · 07-22-2011, 07:24 PM

I've been reading updates on BBC News Online all day. Apparently the suspect went to the island camp dressed as a policeman, gathered young people around to talk to them about the bomb blast and then started shooting them. The coldness of his actions beggars belief.

**phesina** · 07-22-2011, 07:33 PM

Terrible. Awful.

**Marigold2** · 07-22-2011, 10:29 PM

Shocking and sad. My hopes and prayers that these people can make it through with as little pain as possible.

**cassiesmom** · 07-22-2011, 11:45 PM

This just makes me sick. I heard on news radio that a single individual has been connected to this. I wonder if it is a situation like that guy who shot Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona, who got hold of a gun despite serious behavioral problems. Just very sad and tragic. 80 people-- that's the size of my church choir. I cannot imagine that. Most of what I know about Norway I learned from Epcot- stave churches, smorgasbord, the sea, boats, mountains, fishing, and outdoor activities year round. Prayers tonight for the people of Norway.

From the online Chicago Tribune---
10:51 p.m. CDT, July 22, 2011
OSLO, Norway (AP) — A Norwegian who dressed as a police officer to gun down summer campers killed at least 80 people at an island retreat, horrified police said early Saturday. It took investigators several hours to begin the realize 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.