Surviving Norway's day of terror
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
On 22 July 2011 Norway suffered its worst terror attacks in recent history. A far-right extremist, Anders Breivik, launched a bomb attack on government offices in Oslo, and then, two hours later, attacked a summer camp for young political activists on the island of Utøya, 38 kms from the Norwegian capital. In total 77 people were killed that day - the majority on the island. Mike Lanchin has been speaking to one of the camp's leaders Lisa Husby, who was 19-years-old at the time . Lisa hid under a bed in a small cabin as the gunman roamed the island looking for his next victim. 'It was 50-50 that day', she says. 'Either you found a good hiding place, or you didn't...it was just random'.
Photo:A wounded young woman is brought ashore after the attacks on Utøya island. (Credit: Svein Gustav Wilhelmsen/AFP via Getty Images)
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| 0:24.9 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. Hello and welcome to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service |
| 0:39.2 | first-hand accounts of events that have shaped our world. |
| 0:42.1 | I'm Mike Lanchin. Today we go back to July 22nd, |
| 0:47.0 | 2011 when a far-right extremist in Norway killed 77 people in two separate attacks. Many of the victims were young activists |
| 0:57.0 | at a summer camp run by the governing Labour Party, but the first attack that July morning was a car bomb left outside government offices in the Norwegian capital Oslo |
| 1:10.0 | Carnage and chaos in Oslo after a bomb attack in the center of the city. |
| 1:15.0 | Right outside the office building, a lady was laying on the ground and she seemed quite injured. |
| 1:20.0 | It was the start of Norway's worst day of terror. |
| 1:23.0 | As we come on air, Norway's Prime Minister says all government ministers |
| 1:27.1 | seemed to be safe, but at least two people are dead. |
| 1:30.0 | Some are reported trapped. |
| 1:31.6 | There's still a lot of chaos here in the street, |
| 1:33.7 | but the police won't let anyone, including the press, |
| 1:36.4 | get much closer to the place where the blasters happens. |
| 1:39.9 | As police and journalists struggled to understand exactly what or who was behind the Oslo attack, |
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