80 killed at Utoya Island,Norway youth conference, 7killed-Oslo bombing,

A bomb devastated the main govt building in Norway's capital Oslo on Friday, killing seven people, and a gunman wounded five people hours later in a shooting at a youth camp, state media reported.Though the bomb attack was on the very heart of power in the small Nordic state, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was safe. There was no claim of responsibility."This is very serious," Stoltenberg told Norwegian TV2 television in a phone call. He added it was too early to say if the blast was a terrorist attack. He said that police had advised him not to say where he was speaking from."Even though we have prepared for this type of situation, it is fairly dramatic when it happens," he added.As he spoke, reports in local media came through of a shooting incident at Utoeya, an island south of Oslo where Stoltenberg's Labour party youth section's yearly gathering was taking place.
Daily newspaper VG said on its website a man dressed as a policeman was shooting wildly and had hit many people.It was not clear whether or how the incidents were linked.NATO member Norway has been the target of threats, if not bombs, before, notably over its involvement in conflicts in Afghanistan and Libya.The attack came just over a year after three men were arrested on suspicion of having links to al Qaeda and planning to attack targets in Norway."It exploded -- it must have been a bomb. People ran in panic...I counted at least 10 injured people," said bystander Kjersti Vedun, who was leaving the area of the blast in Oslo.

Thirty-two-year-old Norwegian man had been arrested in the shooting and “is suspected of having some right-wing sympathies,” said Police Directorate spokesman Runar Kvernen. “The police are now working with the theory that he is involved in both of the tragedies today. He was observed, the same person, the same outfit, at both scenes.”Police Directorate spokesman Runar Kvernen-further adds“Whether he had helpers, that we don’t know,” he said. “He is the main track for the police right now.”

Thunderous Bomb blast struck around 3:30 p.m. local time close to the 17-story building that holds the prime minister’s office — who was not there at the time blast out almost every window,setting off a billowing fire at the nearby oil ministry.Two hours after, a man dressed in a police uniform opened fire on Utoya Island, 25 miles northwest of the capital, the ruling Labor Party was holding an annual conference for young people, police said.“Ambulances and helicopters are flying nonstop,” Kvernen said. “The losses are quite huge.”

Norwegian news agency NTB said former prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland had been present at the conference Friday and that Stoltenberg had been scheduled to speak there Saturday,smoke streamed out of the oil ministry building for much of the afternoon,electronic-media broadcast images of crowds of office workers running through the streets, with documents and broken glass littering the ground.
President Obama expressed his condolences to Norway and offered U.S. support as Norwegian authorities investigate the incidents, which he described as terrorist attacks.Media-agencies