Norway’s Police Say Shooting Response Was Fast as Possible
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Norwegian police said they responded as fast as possible to reports of shooting on the island of Utoeya, where Anders Behring Breivik went on a rampage that claimed the lives of 68 youths.
The first report of the July 22 shooting was received at 5:27 p.m. by police in the Nordre Buskerud district in which Utoeya is located and the gunman was apprehended at 6:27 p.m. by the Emergency Response Team from Oslo, two minutes after they arrived on the island, spokesman Henning Holtaas said by phone. Officers in Oslo were dealing with the aftermath of a related bomb attack in the capital as the island shooting began.