Oslo (Norway), July 25 (ANI): Norway's King Harald and Queen Sonja will lead their nation and other Scandinavian countries in observing a minute's silence for the 93 victims of Friday's terrorist attack.
The royals will join Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg at the University of Oslo at noon 11 a.m. (BST) to honour those killed in the country's worst violence since the Second World War.
Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland will join their Norwegian neighbours in the minute of silence and flags across the region will fly at half-mast in solidarity, The Telegraph reports.
Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen said: "It was an attack against the very values that our countries are built upon. It was an attack against all of us."
He was joined by Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen, who added: "It is clear that we must uphold the values of an open society and democracy even when they are under attack."
Yesterday, Prime Minister Stoltenberg led a service at Oslo's main Lutheran cathedral in Oslo, saying the two days since the attack felt like "an eternity - hours, days, and nights filled with shock and angst and crying".
Meanwhile, the royal palace has cofirmed the death of a half brother of Princess Mette-Marit in the Utoeya island shootout.
That incident claimed 86 lives.
Palace spokeswoman Marianne Hagen said that 51-year-old off-duty policeman Trond Bernsten died during Friday's massacre while trying to arrest the gunman after ensuring his son was safe. (ANI)
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