More terrible news from Norway.
Neil Perry has sent me more details of the shooting on the Labour party youth camp, which suggests the possibility of co-ordinated attacks. It is a Google translation from Dagbladet, tidied up a bit, so it is not perfect.
“Witnesses told the AP that a man dressed as a police officer has fired several shots at [the island of] Utøya in Buskerud. AP spoke with one of those who were on Utoya where there is an AUF [the youth wing of the Labor Party] event with over 700 people.
“Suddenly, we heard lots of shooting. People had to run and hide. We have been told to get off the island.”
“We now have reports of a serious situation there – a critical situation on Utøya,” Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told TV 2
“The police are now on site and sealed off the area. Bjorn Jarle Røberg-Larsen of Labor, is not in Utoya, but has had telephone contact with young people who are on the island.
“They say that at least one person wearing a police-like uniform was firing shots with a handgun,” he said.
“He says that the young people he talked to were hiding and dared not speak on the phone anymore for fear of being discovered by the perpetrator.
“Young people have to swim in panic, and it is far to the mainland from Utoya. Others are hiding. Those I spoke with did not want to talk more. They were terrified,” he said to VG Nett.
If I read this correctly in Aftenposten, former prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland spoke at the island today, and the current prime minister was due to speak there tomorrow. Meanwhile DN reports here that ‘at least’ five people have been shot. VG, Norway’s largest tabloid, has more here. The ‘false policeman’ reportedly said he was there on a rountine check following the’terror attack’ in Oslo, something that (if correctly reported) could, I imagine, appear to suggest prior knowledge and thus that the bombing and the shooting are connected….