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SALT LAKE CITY — At least 80 people died, and many more were injured, after a bomb exploded in Norway's government district Friday morning.
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A Norwegian who dressed as a police officer to gun down summer campers killed at least 80 people at an island retreat, horrified police said early Saturday. Friday's massacre followed an explosion in nearby Oslo that killed seven, and that police say was set off by the same suspect.A Utah man serving as mission president for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Oslo was in the city when the bombings happened.
"We just heard a big, huge bang and felt the force," said Armand Johansen, mission president of the LDS Norway Oslo Mission.
Johansen was leading a training session about a half mile from where the bomb exploded.
"(It) sounded like an enormous, like a lightning bolt had just gone off outside the office building," he said. "When the bomb went off, all the windows to our office there in the youth center blew open, they swung open on their hinges. The glass didn't break, but the windows went open. It was that big of a blast."
Johansen leads 50 missionaries as part of the Oslo mission. He reported all of them are safe.
No matter what develops next, those missionaries will have to change their plans in the short term.
"There were some rumors that several bombs hadn't gone off, so just for security sake we won't be in the central part of the city," Johansen said.
According to Johansen, Norweigans are a very peaceful people, and one hardly sees police officers on the streets.
