A man lights a candle to pay tribute to victims of the twin attacks near the Domkirke church in central Oslo, Norway (AP)
Anders Breivik
Medics and emergency workers escort an injured person from a camp site on the island of Utoya (AP)
Smoke rises from central Oslo after an explosion ripped through government buildings (AP/Scanpix)
Smoke rises from central Oslo after an explosion ripped through government buildings (AP/Scanpix)
A victim is treated outside government buildings in the centre of Oslo, Friday July 22, 2010, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering windows and covering the street with documents.(AP Photo/Fartein Rudjord)
Medics and emergency workers escort youths from a camp site on the island of Utoya, Norway Saturday July 23, 2011. A Norwegian dressed as a police officer gunned down at least 84 people at an island retreat, police said Saturday. Investigators are still searching the surrounding waters, where people fled the attack, which followed an explosion in nearby Oslo that killed seven. (AP Photo/Morten Edvardsen/Scanpix
An aerial view of Utoya Island, Norway taken Thursday, July 21, 2011
An injured woman is helped by a passerby, in a doorway in Oslo, Norway, Friday July 22, 2011, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering windows and covering the street with documents and debris. The Prime Minister is not hurt
Two women are seen leaving as rescue workers arrive to help the injured following an explosion in Oslo, Norway Friday July 22, 2011
Medics and emergency workers escort an injured person from a camp site on the island of Utoya, Norway Saturday July 23, 2011. A Norwegian dressed as a police officer gunned down at least 84 people at an island retreat, police said Saturday. Investigators are still searching the surrounding waters, where people fled the attack, which followed an explosion in nearby Oslo that killed seven
A tracked high speed mist fan is used to drag a damaged vehicle away from a building in central Oslo, Friday July 22, 2011, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering windows and covering the street with documents
The wreckage of a car lies outside a building in the centre of Oslo, Friday July 22, 2010, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering windows and covering the street with documents and debris. A loud explosion shattered windows Friday at the government headquarters in Oslo which includes the prime minister's office, injuring several people. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is safe, government spokeswoman Camilla Ryste told The Associated Press
A victim is treated outside government buildings in the center of Oslo, Friday July 22, 2011, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering windows and covering the street with documents. (AP Photo/Fartein Rudjord)
In this image taken from TV smoke and flames billow from the shattered window of a building after an explosion in Oslo, Norway, Friday July 22, 2011. A loud explosion shattered windows Friday in several buildings including the government headquarters in Oslo which includes the prime minister's office, injuring several people. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is safe, government spokeswoman Camilla Ryste told The Associated Press
The wreckagew of a car lies outside a building in the centre of Oslo, Friday July 22, 2010, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering windows and covering the street with documents.(AP Photo/Roald Berit, Scanpix, Norway)
An officer responds in the centre of Oslo, Friday July 22, 2010, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering windows and covering the street with documents and debris
The scene after an explosion in Oslo, Norway, Friday July 22, 2011
The wreckage of a car lies outside government buildings in the centre of Oslo, Friday July 22, 2011, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering wiondows and covering the street with documents
Devastation caused after a powerful blast tore open several buildings (Holm Morten)
An aerial view of Utoya Island, where a Labour Party youth camp was attacked by a gunman (AP)
A woman walks through debris in a street following an explosion in Oslo, Norway Friday July 22, 2011. A powerful blast tore open several Oslo buildings including the prime minister's office on Friday
Victims receive treatment outside government buildings in the centre of Oslo, Friday July 22, 2010, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office
The scene after an explosion in Oslo, Norway, Friday July 22, 2011
Smoke rises from the central area of Oslo Friday, July 22, 2011 after an explosion. Terrorism ravaged long-peaceful Norway on Friday when a bomb ripped open buildings including the prime minister's office and a man dressed as a police officer opened fire at a nearby island youth camp. (AP Photo/Scanpix, Jon Bredo Overaas)
Wounded people are treated in the street in the centre of Oslo, Friday July 22, 2010, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering windows and covering the street with documents and debris
By Jerome Taylor
– 25 July 2011
Norway's King Harald V and his wife Queen Sonja both wiped tears from their eyes as they joined mourners at Oslo Cathedral for a service of "sorrow and hope".
As the people of Norway focused on remembering those they had lost, makeshift shrines sprang up across the city and mourners filed into the cathedral yesterday morning.
Many embraced each other next to the growing sea of flowers outside the church.
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg spoke on behalf of his traumatised nation: "We are still struggling to get to grips with the dimension of what has happened.
"Many of us know people that have been killed. And many more have second-hand acquaintances with someone that was killed."
The royal couple and prime minister later visited grieving relatives of the young people gunned down, while buildings around the capital lowered flags to half-mast and people streamed to the cathedral to light candles.
The loss of 93 people is a tragedy wherever it happens. But in a country of just 4.9 million, it is a collective catastrophe.
Now that Norwegians are beginning to understand Breivik's sheer ruthlessness, the country's profound belief in forgiveness and redemption will no doubt be sorely tested.
Currently, no-one can be sentenced to more than 21 years in prison for a criminal act.
It raises the prospect that unless Anders Behring Breivik is declared insane, he could be free to walk the streets of Oslo again in less than a quarter of a century.
Flowers and candles were also placed outside the Royal Norwegian Embassy in London, which remained open yesterday to provide support to anyone who needed it, its flag flying at half-mast.
A spokesman said: "People have come to the embassy to express their sympathies. I read some of the notes they left and some were in Norwegian but most were in English."
Yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI called on people to renounce hatred in the face of the "deep sorrow" felt over the Norwegian terror attacks.
The pope urged people to pray for the dead, the wounded and their loved ones as he spoke to pilgrims and tourists from the balcony of his summer palace in Castel Gandolfo near Rome.
Pope Benedict said he was issuing a heartfelt appeal for people to "abandon hatred once and for all" and renounce what he called "the logic of evil".
The pope yesterday sent a condolence message to Norway's king, denouncing the "senseless violence".
His envoy in Norway called the terror attacks "madness" and said the victims would be remembered at Sunday Mass.
"Unfortunately, yet again comes news of death and violence," Pope Benedict said at the start of his greetings to the faithful. "We all feel deep sorrow for the grave terrorist acts.
"I want to again repeat my grief-stricken appeal to all to abandon forever the way of hatred and to run away from the logic of evil," Pope Benedict said in his remarks, speaking in Italian.
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