Norway mourns 77 dead a decade after extremist attack

Events will take place around the country on Thursday, including a service in Oslo Cathedral that will end with bells ringing in churches throughout Norway

Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Crown Prince Haakon Magnus, Crown Princess Mette-Marit, AUF leader Astrid Hoem and leader of the National Support Group Lisbeth Kristine Royneland attend a memorial service marking the 10-year anniversary of the terrorist attack by Anders Breivik, in the Government Quarter, Oslo. Picture: Geir Olsen/NTB scanpix via AP

Commemorations began on Thursday to mark 10 years since Norway’s worst ever peacetime slaughter.

On July 22, 2011, right-wing extremist Anders Breivik set off a bomb in the capital, Oslo, killing eight people, before heading to tiny Utoya island where he stalked and shot dead 69 mostly teen members of the Labor Party’s youth wing.