NORWAY: Norwegians lay flowers on the shoreline opposite Utoeya island, where Anders Behring Breivik went on a shooting rampage, killing 68 people.
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NORWAY: Norwegians lay flowers on the shoreline opposite Utoeya island, where Anders Behring Breivik went on a shooting rampage, killing 68 people.
- Title: NORWAY: Norwegians lay flowers on the shoreline opposite Utoeya island, where Anders Behring Breivik went on a shooting rampage, killing 68 people.
- Date: 30th July 2011
- Summary: NEAR UTOEYA ISLAND, NORWAY (JULY 29, 2011) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SHORELINE ON MAINLAND ACROSS FROM UTOEYA ISLAND/PEOPLE STANDING LOOKING ACROSS WATER WOMAN LAYING FLOWERS AT MEMORIAL SEARCHERS IN BOAT CRUISING PAST SOLIREN ULWANG, ARRIVING WITH FRIENDS, TO PLACE FLOWERS AT MEMORIAL TO COMMEMORATE FRIEND WHO DIED, SYNNE ROEYNELAND GIRL HOLDING FLOWER (SOUNDBITE) (English) FRIEND OF VICTIM, SOLIREN ULWANG SAYING: "I'm here because my friend died at Utoeya. And so, me and my friends wanted to put flowers into the lake and yeah, just memorise." UTOEYA ISLAND, SEEN FROM MAINLAND (SOUNDBITE) (English) FRIEND OF VICTIM, SOLIREN ULWANG, SAYING: "It's still really hard. And, soon there will be memorials. So, I think it will continue to be very hard for all of us, but I think it's a little bit better to come out here and to see the island and really get it all in. So, it's better, but still hard." VARIOUS OF YOUNG WOMEN LAYING FLOWERS AT MEMORIAL ULWANG AT MEMORIAL ULWANG LAYING FLOWERS YOUNG WOMAN LAYING ROSE VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING TO/FROM MEMORIAL ACROSS SHALLOW WATER UTOEYA ISLAND, SEEN FROM MAINLAND UTVIKA CAMPSITE, (NEAR UTOEYA ISLAND) SUNDVOLLEN, NORWAY (JULY 29, 2011) (REUTERS) ENTRANCE, UTVIKA CAMPSITE SIGN AT ENTRANCE TO UTVIKA CAMPSITE RECEPTION OFFICE VARIOUS OF HOLIDAYMAKERS SEATING IN FRONT OF CARAVAN CHILD RUNNING THROUGH CAMPING SITE (SOUNDBITE) (English) RUSSIAN TOURIST, OLGA GORELKINA SAYING: "(It was) Friday and we were going on Sunday, so it was pretty much just a day difference. But we were… we decided not to cancel anything, so it didn't really put us off travelling. We are extremely sorry for it happening…" (SOUNDBITE) (English) TOURIST FROM MOLDOVA, MAXIM CHIRRAC, SAYING: "In general, we know that Norway is a pretty safe place, so -- and we always wanted to come here to see the fjords and camp around -- so that didn't stop us. We knew that it was just one instance of terrible acts." GARDEN SEATING IN FRONT OF CARAVAN ANNEXE (SOUNDBITE) (English) TOURIST FROM MOLDOVA, MAXIM CHIRRAC, SAYING: "And by accident we kind of saw this place with lots of flowers and cars there stopping. So, I heard in the news is that it happened on a big lake on an island so I realized that it is here. And, that's not because we stayed here, but that was getting late so we just decided to stay here. But you can see around, all the Norwegians are staying here and they are feeling safe as well,yeah?" MAN AND TODDLER IN FRONT OF CARAVAN MAN SEATED INSIDE CARAVAN VARIOUS OF CARAVANS PARKED AT CAMPING SITE
- Embargoed: 14th August 2011 13:00
- Keywords:
- Location: Norway, Norway
- Country: Norway
- Topics: Crime
- Reuters ID: LVA1K1U58O99WST5A4MY20DO1XVD
- Story Text: Young Norwegians laid flowers on Friday (July 29) at a small waterside memorial, across the fjord from the island where 68 people at were killed by a shooting spree one week previously.
Among them was Soliren Ulwang, an 18-year-old, who lost her school friend, Synne Roeyneland, also 18, when Anders Behring Breivik killed 68 people at a ruling Labour Party youth camp on Utoeya island.
"Me and my friends wanted to put flowers into the lake," Ulwang said, adding, "I think it will continue to be very hard for all of us, but I think it's a little bit better to come out here and to see the island and get it all in. So, it's better, but still hard."
Nearby, at Utvika campsite, holidaymakers reflected on events. One couple from Eastern Europe said they had arrived two days after the killings.
"(It was) Friday and we were going on Sunday, so it was pretty much just a day difference. But we were… we decided not to cancel anything, so it didn't really put us off travelling. We are extremely sorry for it happening," Russian Olga Gorelkina said.
"In general, we know that Norway is a pretty safe place, so -- and we always wanted to come here to see the fjords and camp around -- so that didn't stop us. We knew that it was just one instance of terrible acts," her companion, Maxim Chirrac, from Moldova, said.
"By accident we kind of saw this place with lots of flowers and cars there stopping. So, I heard in the news is that it happened on a big lake on an island so I realized that it is here. And, that's not because we stayed here, but that was getting late so we just decided to stay here. But you can see around, all the Norwegians are staying here and they are feeling safe as well," he added.
Utvika was the place from where a makeshift rescue operation was launched while the massacre was underway.
A number of campers from the site came to the rescue of some of the young people on Utoeya, plucking them off the island, or waters surrounding, and taking them to the mainland.
Norway was holding the first funerals for the victims of the massacre on Friday.
A total of 76 people died in a bombing in Oslo and the shooting on Utoeya island on July 22. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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