Norway Struck By 2 Deadly Attacks -- CNN
(CNN) -- Norway came under deadly attack Friday with a massive bombing in the heart of its power center and a shooting at the ruling Labour Party's youth camp on an island outside the capital -- attacks that police said are definitely linked.
At least seven people were killed in the blast in Oslo and at least nine were killed on Utoya Island, which is about 20 miles away, police said.
Police spokesman Are Frykholm told CNN that a man arrested on the island appeared to match the description of a person who was seen near the government buildings shortly before the bomb erupted.
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