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Grete Lien Metlid, left, head of the police\u2019s Joint Unit for Operational Service, and Frode Larsen, head of the Joint Unit for Investigation and Intelligence, talk to reporters about the blast at the US Embassy in Oslo [AFP]<\/p>\nOther motives also being investigated, police say, as they search for one or several perpetrators.<\/p>\n
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Police in Norway say an explosion at the United States embassy in the capital, Oslo, overnight that caused no injuries and minor material damage may have been an act of terror, but other motives are also being investigated.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s natural to see this in the context of the current security \u2060situation and that this could be an attack deliberately targeting the US embassy,\u201d Frode Larsen, head of the Oslo police investigation unit, told a news conference on Sunday.<\/p>\n
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\u201cOne of our hypotheses is that this is terrorism, but we are also exploring other options,\u201d Larsen later told public broadcaster NRK. \u201cBut we are not completely stuck on that. We have to be open to the possibility that there may be other causes behind what has happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
People on the scene said the street was blanketed in thick smoke following the blast.<\/p>\n
Grete Lien Metlid, left, head of the police\u2019s Joint Unit for Operational Service, and Frode Larsen, head of the Joint Unit for Investigation and Intelligence, talk to reporters about the blast at the US Embassy in Oslo [AFP]<\/p>\n
The blast at the embassy compound in western Oslo occurred at 1am local time (00:00 GMT), sending thick smoke into the street by the entrance of the consular section, witnesses said.<\/p>\n
No suspects have been identified, but police are searching for one or several perpetrators \u200cand are cooperating closely with the embassy, Larsen said.<\/p>\n
Norway\u2019s government was in contact with \u2060officials at the embassy to convey that this \u2060was \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
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Damage at the US Embassy in Oslo on March 8, 2026, hours after a loud bang was reported at the site [AFP]<\/p>\n
PST, the Norwegian police security service, called in additional personnel following the incident but has not changed the country\u2019s terror threat level, according to communication adviser Martin Bernsen.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an unacceptable incident that is being treated with the utmost seriousness,\u201d said Astri Aas-Hansen, Norway\u2019s minister of justice and public security.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe police have stated that they are investigating the case with significant resources, and that nothing indicates the situation poses any danger to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police added that they are working to protect the Jewish community in the country following the incident, which came as the US and Israeli forces strike Iran, a conflict that has engulfed several other nations in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Other motives also being investigated, police say, as they search for one or several perpetrators. Listen to this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3456,43,44,19224,41,39,42,40,206083],"class_list":{"0":"post-523040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-europe","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-norway","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories","16":"tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523040","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=523040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}