Norway Reimposes Schengen Border Control over Terror Attacks

World | July 23, 2011, Saturday // 16:07
Bulgaria: Norway Reimposes Schengen Border Control over Terror Attacks Search and rescue personnel seen at Utoya island, close to Oslo, Norway, 23 July 2011. Photo by EPA/BGNES

In the aftermath of the twin terror attacks in Norway Friday, the country has moved to reimpose border control for its Schengen neighbors.

"Norway has decided to temporarily resume border control for the Schengen countries," a diplomat from the Russian embassy to Norway has told ITAR-TASS. "We are not authorized to comment on such measures," he said.

The measure is in line with the agreement reached at the end of June on behalf of the Schengen that border control may be resumed in cases of emergency.

Further unconfirmed reports have suggested that a second gunman was involved in Friday's shooting rampage on Norway's Utoya Island, which occurred shortly after the bomb attack in downtown Oslo.

Latest data indicates that 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik killed at least 84 people, mostly teenagers, in his shooting rampage at the Utoya Island where Norway's ruling Labor Party held a youth camp, and another 7 people in the bomb attack in downtown Oslo.

Breivik, described as a right-wing Christian fundamentalist, was reportedly dressed in a police uniform when he opened fire on the teenagers at the youth camp on the Utoya Island.

Another Nordic country, Denmark, recently boosted controls along its borders with Germany and Sweden, which are intra-Schengen Area borders.

 

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Tags: Norway, Oslo, Utoya, terror attacks, Anders Behring Breivik, bomb, Gunman, Schengen, border control

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