MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Norwegian police announced on Wednesday they would carry out a “controlled explosion” of a possible bomb found in Oslo earlier in the day, introducing a flight ban over the area.
The suspicious object was discovered near Blindern, the main campus of Oslo University.
"At 02:42, police received information that a security guard had been shot on campus at Blindern. During a search of the area, a bomb-like object was located. The object is probably made to look like a bomb, but we do not know yet whether it contains explosives,” Oslo police said in a statement.
The shooting is being investigated as an attempted murder, and police are looking for two perpetrators.
The incident comes as the Norwegian Labour Party’s youth fraction is holding its first summer camp since Anders Breivik’s terrorist attack in 2011 at the Utoya island outside Oslo.
Dozens of the youth party’s members were killed in the lone wolf attack. According to local media, police and the party are currently discussing the security situation.
Breivik, who killed a total of 77 people during his two attacks, targeting the Labour Party's camp and a Norwegian government building, was accepted into Oslo University earlier this summer.
