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| Norway: Blast near prime minister's office in Oslo | Norway: Blast near prime minister's office in Oslo |
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| A large explosion has hit near government headquarters in the Norwegian capital Oslo. | A large explosion has hit near government headquarters in the Norwegian capital Oslo. |
| At least one person was killed in the city centre blast, national broadcaster NRK reports. | |
| The offices of Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg were damaged extensively but he was reportedly unharmed. | |
| At least eight people were injured, local media said. No-one has said they were behind the explosion. | |
| Television footage from the scene showed rubble and glass from shattered windows in the streets - smoke was around some buildings. The wreckage of at least one car was in street. | |
| All roads into the city centre have been closed, said the NRK, and security officials evacuated people from the area, fearing another blast. | |
| Oistein Mjarum, head of communications for the Norwegian Red Cross, said his offices were close to the site of the explosion. | |
| "There was a massive explosion which could be heard over the capital Oslo," he told the BBC. | |
| 'Complete chaos' | |
| Mr Mjarum said there were fires burning in the prime minister's 17-storey building. | |
| "This is a very busy area on Friday afternoon and there was a lot of people in the streets, and many people working in these buildings that are now burning," he said. | |
| Eyewitness Ole Tommy Pedersen said he was standing at a bus stop about 100m away from the blast. | |
| "I saw three or four injured people being carried out of the building a few minutes later," Mr Pedersen told AP. | |
| He said there was a cloud of smoke billowing from the lower floors. | |
| An NRK journalist, Ingunn Andersen, said the headquarters of tabloid newspaper VG had also been damaged. | An NRK journalist, Ingunn Andersen, said the headquarters of tabloid newspaper VG had also been damaged. |
| "I see that some windows of the VG building and the government headquarters have been broken. Some people covered with blood are lying in the street," AP quoted her as saying. | |
| "It's complete chaos here. The windows are blown out in all the buildings close by." | "It's complete chaos here. The windows are blown out in all the buildings close by." |
| Mr Mjarum said people were in shock in Oslo and across Norway. | |
| "We have never had a terrorist attack like this in Norway - if that's what it is - but of course this has been a great fear for all Norwegians when they have seen what has been happening around the world." | |
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