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Photo Gallery Norway Mourns Its Dead

The twin attacks which left more than 90 people dead have stunned Norwegians and changed the country for ever. Nowhere is the sense of mourning clearer than in Sundvollen, a town near the scene of the shootings, where the relatives of victims gathered on Saturday.
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The twin attacks which left more than 90 people dead have stunned Norwegians and changed the country for ever. Nowhere is the sense of mourning clearer than in Sundvollen, a town near the scene of the shootings, where the relatives of victims gathered on Saturday.

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At least 85 people were killed in the shooting spree on the island of Utoya on Friday. Here, covered bodies are seen on the island's shore on Saturday.

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On Saturday, rescue workers kept looking for more victims. Survivors told of panic and chaos on the island during the shooting.

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This image taken from a helicopter shows what the police believe is the suspected gunman Anders Behring B., walking with a gun in his hand among bodies on the island.

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Many of the young people jumped into the water and tried to swim to the mainland when the shooting started.

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The gunman apparently also fired on people in the water.

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Emergency services search the water for victims on Saturday.

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A police anti-terror unit arrives at Utoya island on Friday, where they later arrested the suspected perpetrator.

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Police believe that both attacks were committed by a 32-year-old Norwegian man identified as Anders Behring B. The suspected perpetrator is apparently a Christian with right-wing extremist and anti-Islamic views.

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B. lived in a brick building in the west of Oslo. Police raided the apartment on Friday night.

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The suspect also had a farmhouse in Aamot in Hedmark, eastern Norway.

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The youth wing of the ruling Labor Party had been holding a summer camp on the island.

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This Google Earth screenshot shows the location of Utoya (marked "A") in relation to Oslo.

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Participants in the summer camp are seen in a photograph taken on Thursday, July 21.

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Members of the Norwegian royal family, including Crown Prince Haakon (right) and Queen Sonja (center), visited survivors and family members at a hotel in Sundvollen on Saturday.

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On Friday, police and emergency services hurried to the scene of the shooting.

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Details of the shooting on the island were initially sketchy. The high death toll only became known later.

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On Saturday, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg called on his nation to stand together. He said that nobody could "shoot Norway into silence," and that the country would continue to uphold its values.

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People pay tribute to the victims of the two attacks in central Oslo on Saturday. The shooting incident came just hours after a bomb exploded in the center of the capital.

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Soldiers guard a street in the government quarter in central Oslo on Saturday.

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At least seven people were killed in the explosion, which damaged government buildings.

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The windows of this building were blown out.

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Smoke rose over the city center on Friday afternoon.

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Medics treated the injured at the scene of the blast.

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The streets were covered in debris following the explosion. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was not in his office at the time of the blast.

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The explosion happened shortly before 3:30 p.m. local time.

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Friday was a public holiday in Norway, meaning that there were fewer people in government offices than would normally have been the case.

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Flames billow from a building after the explosion.

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The headquarters of Norway's largest tabloid VG (seen in the background) were also damaged by the explosion.

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The twin attacks have left Norway in a state of shock.

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