2011 Norway attacks
| 2011 Norway attacks | |
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31 minutes after the explosion in Oslo
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 Government quarter (Oslo)
Utøya island
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| Location | Oslo and Utøya, Norway |
| Coordinates | 59°54′54″N 10°44′48″E / 59.9149776°N 10.746544°ECoordinates: 59°54′54″N 10°44′48″E / 59.9149776°N 10.746544°E |
| Date | 22 July 2011 Oslo: 15:25CEST Utøya: 17:22–18:34 CEST (UTC+02:00) |
| Target | Labour Party |
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Attack type
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Car bomb, mass shooting, terrorism |
| Weapons |
Oslo: Car bomb (made using ANFO)
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| Deaths |
Oslo: 8 |
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Non-fatal injuries
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Oslo: At least 209 |
| Perpetrator |
Anders Behring Breivik (lone wolf) |
| Motive | Far-right extremism |
Oslo: Car bomb (made using ANFO)
Utøya:
Oslo: 8
Utøya: 69 (67 from gunfire)
Oslo: At least 209
Utøya: At least 110 (33 by gunfire, including 1 later fatality)
The 2011 Norway attacks, referred to in Norway as 22 July (Norwegian: 22. juli), the date of the events, were two sequential lone wolf terrorist attacks by Anders Behring Breivik against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League (AUF)-run summer camp. The attacks claimed a total of 77 lives.
The first attack was a car bomb explosion in Oslo within Regjeringskvartalet, the executive government quarter of Norway, at 15:25:22 (CEST). The bomb was made from a mixture of fertiliser and fuel oil and placed in the back of a van. The van was placed next to the tower block housing the office of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. The explosion killed eight people and injured at least 209 people, twelve of them seriously.
The second attack occurred less than two hours later at a summer camp on the island of Utøya in Tyrifjorden, Buskerud. The camp was organized by the AUF, the youth division of the ruling Norwegian Labour Party (AP). Breivik, dressed in a homemade police uniform and showing false identification, took a ferry to the island and opened fire at the participants, killing 68 of them outright, and injuring at least 110 people, 55 of them seriously; the 69th victim died in a hospital two days after the massacre. Among the dead were personal friends of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, and the stepbrother of Norway's crown princess Mette-Marit.
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