- Not real explosive bomb similar findings at Blindern – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): – The bomb-like object now is harmless made by the police bomb squad, and the preliminary investigations show that it contained no real explosives, said police inspector Johan Fredriksen.

Along with police Grete Lien Metlid he keeps at around 12:30 o’clock a press conference at the police station in Greenland, after the events at Oslo on Wednesday.

– Closer examination will be made as we speak, he adds.

– A hoax

After a security guard was shot in chest night to today, and a bomb-like object was found on campus during the morning hours, the police worked for full on-site.

First, in 11:40 o’clock could police announce that they were done on site. Bangs they had notified, did not materialize, and they would not say anything about how they worked.

– This is a good safety message. Having said that it is the object designed to create fear, but it is that the police call a hoax . So intent are investigation to look into. But danger potential in the area is now taken down. Some barriers are maintained. But Oslo city is a safe city, and it can also be considered as an extension, says Fredriksen.

Shot in the chest

It was 2:40 o’clock notified a security guard that he had been shot against two perpetrators who ran from him when he tried to stop them outside the university campus.

They turned, and should have shot four or five shots at him.

One shot hit the watchman in the chest, but he was only slightly injured when he wore bulletproof vest. The incident is being investigated as a murder attempt and the two alleged perpetrators are still at large.

Grete Lien Metlid stating that it goes well with the watchman, and he has been questioned and spoken to since the incident occurred.

The police have not found it to be two perpetrators, and encourages the public to contact if they have information about the incident.

– It has been a very hectic phase and now works technicians on all tracks, says Grete Lien Metlid. Police also contact NCIS and PST, police said.

– Created as bomb

A few hours after the shots were fired, police found a bomb-like object. Though it contained explosives, they did not know, but it was designed as a bomb.

Then, police found a jacket next Blindern Metro Station, which they link to the one alleged perpetrator. They cordoned off the area where the jacket was lying to hedge found.

Grete Lien Metlid would not give details about the jacket they have found and which is now being examined.

– We have not received DNA out of it, but it is being investigated further. The examined considering that it may have a connection, she says.

She also states that the police have found other tracks that are now being investigated.

– The investigation runs parallel, but now will be further examinations of what is found, it is also made other discoveries and tracks that you work with. It is centrally located in the hours we work forward now, she said at the press conference.

In the 10 o’clock putting on police themselves bomb-protection and made himself ready to defuse the object. The time 11.40 could police efforts leader tell that work at the site was finished, but that he wanted to say more about how the police had worked before the press conference.