Major explosion/bomb in Oslo

[Finlandia]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14252515

Looks to be one or several car bombs, more news follows.

[galro]

Pictures:

[Mojocvh]

Was a warning given?

[Finlandia]

That is shocking! Nothing about any warnings given yet.

[galro]

The bomb went of in what is known as the government quarter here in the city. Is basically a area almost sealed of from the rest of the city, where the government have located their buildings and departments. The bomb destroyed windows as far as 1km+ away. They are still yet to conclude whether or not it is a terror attack or a explosion due to the road works in the street where the buildings are located.

[Digga]

Bugger! This is terrible news - a huge explosion by all accounts.

My heart goes out to those affected by it.

[galro]

NRKs (the national broadcasting company in this country) live feed:
http://www.nrk.no/nett-tv/direkte/nrk1/

[galro]

On youtube:

Oslo Explosion Aftermath.mp4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkFYUP3aKbU&fea...


Explosion in Oslo centrum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmLBmFGTcM&fea...

[Muntu]

Al-Jazeera TV reports that Norwegian prosecutors filed a terrorism charge against Mullah Krekar, founder of the Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-Islam on Tuesday...

[ralphrj]

The Norwegians have been trying to deport Mullar Krekar (founder of Ansar al-Islam) for years (since about 2003).

He has threatened to assasinate the government if they succeed.

Earlier this month he was charged with making threats against the politicians.

[galro]

Mulla Krekar has apparently denied that he is behind the bomb, but not sure how credible that is though.

Link (only in Norwegian): http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/07/22/nyheter/mulla_k...

[galro]

Police reports that there are two more bombs in Oslo, but they don't know where they are. I guess that leaves out the road work as a possible case. The casualties can be much, much worse if it hits some of the residential areas of the city.

[Shaw Tarse]

Bloody hell!

[BelperJim]

Pictures on BBC look pretty ominous an entire street, every window blown out right up to the top of very tall buildings.

[ChiChoAndy]

Bloody hell... Jumping the gun, again, but ROP stokes again?

[Finlandia]

Now confirmed to having been at least one, maybe several bombs detonating, apparently.

[tuffer]

Holy crap, I visit Oslo on a regular basis and have had several meetings in that building (DSS), hope everyone I know is OK.

[Marf]

ChiChoAndy said:

Bloody hell... Jumping the gun, again, but ROP stokes again?

Nah, don't be daft, couldnt possibly be muslamics.

[ascayman]

galro said:

Police reports that there are two more bombs in Oslo, but they don't know where they are.

where is this from?

[Finlandia]

ascayman said:

where is this from?

Norwegian and Swedish news reported it.