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EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF Friday’s massacres in Norway have begun to emerge as police in Oslo continue to investigate the killings.
Adrian Pracon, 21, is recovering in hospital after being shot in the shoulder by the gunman who slaughtered at least 86 people on Utøya island. He lay bleeding on the beach as the killings continued. Mr Pracon told Norway’s Varden newspaper (translated): “That I played dead saved my life.
First, I tried to swim, but turned back. It would have been certain death. I lay on the beach and pretended I was dead, clinging to a corpse lying next to me. I saw him aim at me and thought it was over. When the shot came, I was hit in the shoulder.
Mr Pracon also remembers a boy of about ten shouting for his father, only to realise he had already been shot. “Now you’ve killed my dad. Let us alone,” the boy shouted at the gunman, according to Mr Pracon.
Erik Kursetgjerde, was also on the island. He described the panicked scenes to Reuters, saying: “I heard screams. I heard people begging for their lives and I heard shots. He just blew them away. I was certain I was going to die. People ran everywhere. They panicked and climbed into trees. People got trampled.”
He added the suspect “would tell people to come over: ‘It’s OK, you’re safe, we’re coming to help you.’ And then [...] he shot them at close range.”
Meanwhile, Norwegian journalist Jon Magnus has spoken about surviving the Oslo bomb, which exploded right next to his paper’s offices. Mr Magnus told the Guardian: “Glass pieces came flying through the news desk. I was peeking out through a crack in the wall, and saw that the Prime Minister’s office was burning.
I saw at least three or four bodies covered in blankets or jackets — I don’t know if they were dead. I also saw people hanging lifeless out of windows [...] I was seeing dozens of people screaming and crying, running around with blood coming out of wounds, covered in blood. I saw people lying lifeless on the side of the streets.
Norway’s Prime Minister today led a memorial service for those killed in the attacks, whose toll has now climbed to 93. He told mourners it was a “national tragedy”, the Daily Mail reports. Police have charged Anders Behring Breivik with the deaths, and he has reportedly admitted responsibility.
Another six people were arrested in police raids in Oslo today, but were later released with officers saying they had no links to the massacres.
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Proper order. The bike stands should 100% be only for getting your bike nicked.
@Paul Gorry: agreed and about time. The city is ruined with these hanging everywhere and also very dangerous for pets and little children at that level.
@Basildon Joe: how are the dangerous?
About time. Air b&b should only be allowed in the primary residence.
It’s a huge contributor to the housing crisis.
@Fergus O’Donnell: and hotels should not be for permanent residence?
@Kevin Byrne:
We’re not? Has anyone informed the government of this?
@Fergus O’Donnell: Tourists need to stay in houses as our hotels are often full of homeless or immigrants. Messed up situation that needs to be sorted.
@Kevin Byrne: mad to think what you do with your property is no one’s business during a housing crisis.
Landlords just ‘following the market rate’ like the pied piper and if we don’t dance to the tune we’re out the door. Bottom feeder.
@Kevin Byrne: the 1960s called, they want their Red Scare back.
@Fergus O’Donnell: nah, it’s not.
Good to see they’re focusing on the important matters…
Imagine you find your air bnb lockbox on the ground? Fecks sake, it’ll be covered in dog pi….
Here is Dublin City Council once again showing their stupidity. Imagine a bureaucracy so obsessed with control that it actively makes life harder for both businesses and consumers. Dublin City Council has just done exactly that by banning lockboxes for Airbnb. The entire purpose of a lockbox is to provide seamless check-in, especially for travelers arriving at odd hours. Instead, Dublin City Council has decided that hosts must now be at the beck and call of their guests. If the guest is delayed, tough luck, someone has to physically be there. How does this benefit anyone? If you own a home, why should the government dictate how you hand over the keys to someone you legally choose to rent to? This is another example of government bureaucrats inserting themselves where they’re not wanted.
Packets of drugs being placed inside.
Absolutely, and any change to whatever was purportedly in place already or implied by actual action’s of any party, would need notification of such conditions and terms, now as are in place and agreed to, so that everyone will know where they, stand, and can move forward!
Let’s see what public thinks
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