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Friday, July 22, 2011

Explosions Downtown

There have been explosions in downtown Oslo.  Today Friday afternoon, explosions went off outside Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's office most likely from a car bomb.  Nothing is really certain about what's going on. Of course there's a lot of speculation.

Thankfully I was not in the area as I was at school which is maybe 3 - 4 miles away.  I didn't hear anything and can't see any of the smoke.  I'm glad that I had decided not to go back downtown this afternoon like I had planned.  I was in fact in the same area all morning up until about an hour and a half before the explosion. 

I have many friends who were in the area and felt the explosion.  There was a lot of glass shattering for a large radius around the explosion and smoke and ash in the air.  People were running everywhere.  One friend described that the elevator in the building she was in just dropped.  I am thankful she wasn't there.  Another friend described that they felt a woosh of air and heard a loud noise like thunder.  Many other people simply just heard the loud noise and were told to turn around. 

Like I said, there are no concrete reports of what has happened.  We have to keep speculation to a minimum because that can just make things worse.  Please know that I am in a safe place and I will give another update when I know more information.

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