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Shooting in Norway on eve of Pride parade investigated as possible terror attack
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The shooting occurred on the eve of Oslo’s Pride parade, which had been due to take place on Saturday. The organizers of Oslo Pride said in a news release early Saturday that the event had been canceled on police advice, Norwegian media reported.
A spokeswoman for Oslo University Hospital told The Washington Post that the facility received seven patients, with one other person sent to a hospital outside the Norwegian capital. Eleven people who suffered minor injuries were sent to local emergency rooms, she said.
Law enforcement said they had taken a person into custody near the scene of the attack.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere condemned the shooting, which he described as “a cruel and deeply shocking attack on innocent people.”
London Pub is located in the vicinity of the Storting, Norway’s legislature. It has hosted Pride-related celebrations for years and on Thursday held a drag show and a Pride-themed bingo session.
Norway has some of Europe’s more gay-friendly laws. Earlier this year, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store marked the 50th anniversary of the country’s decriminalization of male same-sex relations by formally apologizing for its past treatment of the LGBTQ community.
“I apologize for the fact that the Norwegian authorities conveyed, through legislation, and also a range of other discriminatory practices, that gay love was not acceptable,” he said.
In July 2011, a Norwegian man killed 77 people by setting off a bomb outside the prime minister’s office in Oslo and opening fire at a youth summer camp organized by the left-leaning Labour Party, in one of the Nordic country’s most heinous crimes in recent memory. Norwegian lawmakers have since banned semiautomatic weapons such as the type of firearm used in the 2011 rampage.