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Norway’s royal court says Crown Princess Mette-Marit’s stepbrother, an off-duty police officer, was among the 86 people killed when a gunman opened fire at a youth camp, AP reports.
Court spokesperson Marianne Hagen says the victim was Trond Berntsen, the son of Mette-Marit’s stepfather, who died in 2008.
Friday’s bombing at government headquarters in Oslo, which killed at least seven, and the shootings, which killed at least 86 at a ruling-party island retreat for young people, have rattled Norway, home to the Nobel Peace Prize and where the average policeman patrols without a firearm.
More than 90 people were wounded, and others remain missing at both crime scenes.
Authorities revealed Sunday that one of the attacker’s first victims on the island was an off-duty police officer who had been hired by the camp directors to provide private security in his spare time.