'Eighty dead' in Norway shooting

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but the suspect is reported by local media to have had links with right-wing extremists.The Oslo bomb attack killed at least seven people. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, whose offices were among those badly hit by the blast, described the attacks as "bloody and cowardly".Earlier, the number of dead from the island shooting spree, which is among the world's most deadly, was put at 10.The man was arrested on tiny Utoeya island outside Oslo, where police say he opened fire on teenagers.Oslo police are questioning a 32-year-old Norwegian man in connection with Friday's attacks.At least 80 people died when a gunman opened fire at an island youth camp in Norway, hours after a bomb attack on the capital, Oslo, police say.Hundreds of young people were attending the summer camp organised by the ruling Labour Party on Utoeya island.
Some of the teenagers were shot at as they tried to swim to safety; police say they discovered many more victims after searching the area around the island."It goes without saying that this gives dimensions to this incident that are exceptional," police director Oystein Maeland is quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.Eyewitnesses described how a tall, blonde man dressed as a policeman opened fire indiscriminately, prompting camp attendees to jump into the water to try and escape the hail of bullets.Police warned the death toll may rise further as rescue teams continued to scour the waters around the island."The country has no finer youth than young people who go for a summer camp doing politics, doing discussions, doing training, doing football, and then they experience this absolutely horrendous act of violence," he said.Mr Stoltenberg had been due to visit the camp on Saturday. Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store, who visited the camp on Thursday, praised those who were attending."He first shot people on the island. Afterward he started shooting people in the water," youth camp delegate Elise told the Associated Press news agency.One 15-year-old eyewitness described how she saw what she thought was a police officer open fire."He asked people to gather round and then he started shooting, so these young people fled into the bushes and woods and some even swam off the island to get to safety.""He travelled on the ferry boat from the mainland over to that little inland island posing as a police officer, saying he was there to do research in connection with the bomb blasts," NRK journalist Ole Torp told the BBC.The gunman is reported to have been armed with a handgun, an automatic weapon and a shotgun.