Norwegian security forces ‘could have prevented Breivik attack’

Norwegian security services could have prevented all or part of an attack by far-right militant Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and gun massacre last year, a government commission said yesterday.

Intelligence services could have learned about Breivik’s plans months before the attack made him the worst mass killer in Norway’s peacetime history, the commission’s report said.

The government building he bombed should have been better protected and he should have been stopped before he shot dozens of victims on an island as police struggled to find a working helicopter and a suitable boat.