On Friday, July 22, 2011, Norway experienced a set of twin terrorist attacks. 

Anders Breivik, a 32-year-old Norwegian man, drove a van packed with a homemade fertilizer bomb and parked it in front of a government block in Oslo. A few minutes later, the bomb exploded, killing eight people, injuring several more, and destroying several buildings.

Dressed as a police officer, he hit the road on a 25-mile trip to Utoya Island, where a Labor Party summer youth camp was being held. He posed as a security detail, doing a routine check following the Oslo attack. Upon entry into the island, he carried out a shooting rampage in which 69 people died, and many others were seriously wounded.

Anders Breivik immediately surrendered when police officers on the island confronted him. During the trial, he confessed to his crimes and was convicted of killing 77 people. However, his testimony was not televised to prevent the spread of his radical ideologies to the people. He was then sentenced to 21 years in prison. 

The July 22 attacks were considered Norway’s deadliest terror attack since World War II as they left the small, close-knit Nordic country grieving.