Norway starts to bury massacre victims

July 29, 2011 05:52 pm | Updated November 17, 2021 01:28 am IST - OSLO

Norwegian Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party Jens Stoltenberg, right, and others hold up red roses during a memorial service for the victims of the bomb and shooting massacre, in Oslo on Friday.

Norwegian Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party Jens Stoltenberg, right, and others hold up red roses during a memorial service for the victims of the bomb and shooting massacre, in Oslo on Friday.

Norwegians have begun a solemn day of memorials for victims of last week’s bomb and shooting massacre, and the first funerals for the 76 victims are to be held.

“Today it is one week since Norway was hit by evil,” Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday at a memorial service in the “People’s House” assembly hall.

“We have to live with July 22, but together we will make it,” he said from a stage adorned with red roses, the symbol of his governing Labour Party.

Another memorial service was being held at an Oslo mosque. The confessed attacker was a vehement anti-Muslim.

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