{"id":522703,"date":"2026-03-08T14:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522703\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:45:10","slug":"explosion-at-u-s-embassy-may-have-been-deliberate-attack-oslo-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522703\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion at U.S. embassy may have been deliberate attack, Oslo police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Police vehicles outside the U.S. embassy after a loud bang was reported at the site in Oslo, Norway, in the early hours of Sunday.Javad Parsa\/Reuters<\/p>\n

The U.S. embassy in Oslo was hit by a loud explosion early on Sunday, causing minor damage but no injuries in what may have been a deliberate attack linked to the crisis in the Middle East, Norwegian police said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s natural to see this in the context of the current security situation and that this could be an attack deliberately targeting the U.S. embassy,\u201d Frode Larsen, head of the Oslo police investigation unit told a news conference.<\/p>\n

No suspects have been identified at present but police are searching for one or several perpetrators and are cooperating closely with the embassy, Larsen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of our hypothesis is that this is terrorism, but we are also exploring other options,\u201d Larsen later told public broadcaster NRK.<\/p>\n

The blast at the embassy compound in western Oslo occurred at 1 a.m. local time, sending thick smoke into the street by the entrance of the consular section, eyewitnesses said.<\/p>\n

Norway\u2019s government was in contact with officials at the U.S. embassy to convey that this was \u201can unacceptable act that we take very seriously,\u201d Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe security of diplomatic missions is very important to us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The blast occurred at the entry to the consular section, Oslo police said, and witnesses said the entrance had been damaged.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a very thick layer of smoke on the street,\u201d said Sebastian Toerstad, 18, a high school student who drove past the embassy at the time of the explosion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was some damage to the entrance,\u201d Toerstad told Reuters.<\/p>\n

Police said no further explosive devices had been found in the area.<\/p>\n

The U.S. embassy referred all inquiries to the U.S. State Department, when contacted by Reuters. The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Police vehicles outside the U.S. embassy after a loud bang was reported at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,1008,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-522703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pleasemod","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}