Video: Norway, oslo bomb, Bomb blast, shooting at youth camp horrify Norway

OSLO, Norway - Police said seven people were confirmed dead following a bomb explosion in front of the Prime Minister's office in Oslo.

Interim Police Chief Sveinung Sponheim said broadcaster NRK that investigators suspect the bombing was linked to a shooting in the youth camp of the Labor Party late Friday by a gunman in police uniform.

A square in Oslo, where the Nobel Prize is awarded, was covered with twisted metal, broken glass and materials expelled from surrounding buildings, which house government offices and the headquarters of some of the major newspapers of Norway. Most of the windows of the 20 floor of skyscrapers where Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and his work of administration have been broken.
Stoltenberg worked at home Friday and was not injured, according to Senior Oivind Ostang.

The death toll was expected to rise, police spokesman Thor Langli said there were dead bodies left in the buildings, but he does not know how.

NRK public broadcaster showed the video of a blackened car lying on its side amid the debris. An AP reporter who was in the office of the Norwegian news agency NTB the building shook from the explosion and all employees were evacuated. In the street he saw a person with a bleeding leg directed away from the area.

Oslo police said the explosion was caused by "one or more" bombs, but declined to speculate on who was behind the attack. They then sealed off the nearby offices of two TV broadcaster after the discovery of a suspicious package.

In Utoya, an island outside Oslo, a gunman wearing a police uniform opened fire at a youth camp of the Labour Party, the firing of several young, the party spokesman Per Gunnar Dahl told The Associated Press.

"There was an incident where a man wearing a police uniform opened fire youth on the island. This created a panic situation where people have started swimming to the island" to escape, he said. Dahl has unconfirmed reports said five people were affected.

It was not immediately clear whether the two attacks were linked.

The explosion occurred at 3:30 p.m. (1330 GMT), as Ole Pedersen Tommy stood at a bus stop 100 meters (yards) away.

"I saw three or four people injured conducted in the building a few minutes later," Pedersen told AP.

The attacks come from Norway faced with a homegrown terrorist plot linked to al Qaeda. Two suspects are in jail awaiting charges.

Last week, a Norwegian public prosecutor filed charges against terrorism a religious home for threatening Iraqi politicians Norwegian death if deported from the Scandinavian country. The indictment focused on statements that Mullah Krekar - founder of the Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-Islam - made various new media, including U.S. network NBC.

Terrorism was also a concern in neighboring countries of Denmark since an uproar over the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad six years ago. Danish authorities say they have foiled several terrorist plots linked to the 2005 cartoons that have sparked protests in Muslim countries. Last month, a Danish court of appeals on Wednesday sentenced a man to Somalia to 10 years in prison for breaking into the home of the cartoonist.