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Swedish teens build on Breivik massacre spot
Utøya

Swedish teens build on Breivik massacre spot

Eighteen construction and civil engineering students from Sweden are taking part in a restoration project on the Norwegian island Utøya, where a youth politics conference is taking place this summer for the first time since dozens of young people were killed by Anders Behring Breivik in 2011.
Swede's terror memorial 'rape of the landscape'
Utøya

Swede's terror memorial 'rape of the landscape'

A Swedish artist's design for a memorial near Norway's Utøya island would be "impossible" to build, and faces opposition from locals who want to block a plan they says risks "scarring" the landscape in a tribute to the dead.
Swedish Utoya survivor revisits summer camp
Terrorism

Swedish Utoya survivor revisits summer camp

A Swedish survivor of the Norway terror attack two years ago heads back to Labour Party summer camp for young members, and tells The Local why it is important "to regain normality" after the murder of 69 people on Utoya Island in 2011.
Sweden 'less prepared' than Norway: report
Terrorism

Sweden 'less prepared' than Norway: report

Sweden would not be able to mobilize as many ambulance helicopters or specialized medical staff as Norway did during the 2011 attacks, according to a new report by the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen).
Police terror response hit by chopper shortage
Police

Police terror response hit by chopper shortage

Swedish police have warned that if a terrorist attack similar to the Utøya massacre should occur in Sweden then the response would be no faster due to the shortage of helicopters, according to a report in the Dagens Nyheter daily.