King, Politicians Attend Somber Oslo Mass for Victims
The Norwegian royal couple, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and other ministers attended a somber mass at Oslo cathedral on Sunday in memory of the 92 people killed in Friday's twin attacks.
Hundreds of ordinary citizens gathered outside the cathedral where a shrine has been set up amid a sea of flowers laid in tribute to those killed in the bombing in Oslo and a mass shooting on a nearby island.
"We are gathered under the signs of mourning and of hope," the bishop of Oslo, Ole Christian Kvarme, told the congregation, many of them wearing black.
Besides King Harald V, Queen Sonja and top politicians, the head of the Labor Party's youth group, Eskil Pedersen, was also present. The youth movement was decimated when its summer camp was attacked on Utoeya island.
Stoltenberg and Pedersen each laid a white rose near the improvised shrine in front of the cathedral before going in to the service.
Source: Agence France Presse
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