Memorial services held in towns and cities across Norway for victims of twin massacres

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OSLO, Norway – It is another sad day in Norway as Norwegians came together to remember the events that took place on Friday.

Memorial services were held Sunday morning in churches across Norway to remember the victims of Friday’s car bombing in Oslo and mass shooting at a youth camp on an island north of the capital.

Norway’s King Harald V and Queen Sonja joined the country’s prime minister and other dignitaries at a service at Oslo Cathedral.

Each laid a single white flower outside as they entered the Cathedral and the prime minister expressed his condolences to the families of the victims.

Hundreds of mourners filled the pews of the cathedral, with others standing at the back and outside.

Across Norway people have come together to share their grief.

The man blamed for attacks on Norway’s government headquarters and a youth retreat that left at least 92 dead said he was motivated by a desire to bring about a revolution in Norwegian society, his lawyer said Sunday.

A manifesto that he is believed to have written ranted against Muslim immigration to Europe and vowed revenge on “indigenous Europeans” who he accused of betraying their heritage.

Although lawyer for the 32-year-old Norwegian suspect, Anders Behring Breivik, said his client acted alone, police conducted raids on a garage and sheds in an industrial neighbourhood of eastern Oslo, said police officer Kjell Bjerklund.

Survivors of the mass shooting on Utoya island that killed at least 85 young people reported seeing two assailants, and police have said they were looking into those accounts and had not ruled out a second suspect. Another seven people were killed in Friday’s bombing in an Oslo government building.

In all, 92 people were killed and 97 wounded. There are still people missing at both scenes. Six hearses pulled up at the shore of the lake surrounding the island on Sunday, as rescuers on boats continued to search for bodies in the water. Body parts remain inside the Oslo building, which housed the prime minister’s office.

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