Norway ups threat level after Oslo bomb scare
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NORWEGIAN police raised the country’s security threat level following the discovery of an explosive device in central Oslo late on Saturday.
A 17-year old Russian citizen, who has lived in Norway since 2010 and applied for asylum, was a suspect in the case and was in custody, police said yesterday, after they set off a controlled explosion of a “bomb-like device” on Saturday night.
The risk of an attack in the coming months has been raised to “probable” from “possible,” Benedicte Bjoernland, head of the police security service, told a news conference. “It is not yet clear whether the suspect was acting alone,” she said.
The Oslo police bomb squad said the device was about 30cm across and had appeared capable of causing only a limited amount of damage.
The discovery of the explosive prompted police to evacuate late bars and restaurants in the Norwegian capital.
“Every restaurant was being closed,” said 23-year-old Malin Myrvold, who witnessed the scene from a fourth-story window. “You could see cops in heavy armor going in every store and restaurant.”
Norway was put on high alert after neighboring Sweden suffered a truck attack in Stockholm on Friday that killed four people and injured 15. The suspect in the attack was revealed to have been a failed asylum-seeker who eluded police efforts to deport him.
The incident in Oslo also came a week after the St Petersburg subway was attacked by a suicide bomber, leaving 13 passengers dead and scores wounded.
The Oslo explosive was found less than a mile from the government buildings that were damaged in a deadly bomb attack carried out by right-wing extremist Anders Breivik in 2011. That bomb and a subsequent gun massacre at a Norwegian island killed a total of 77 people.
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