Bomb scare closes US embassy in Oslo

“The Oslo police bomb squad has removed the object and can confirm that it was a dummy bomb,” the Associated Press cited a police statement on Tuesday.

“The car has been used for an internal drill at the embassy, and the find can be connected to this,” the statement said.

The discovery of the device by security guards also led to the evacuation of the royal palace, the halting of subway traffic in the area, and the cancellation of an international children’s soccer game at nearby Voldslokka Stadium so that the police could use the field for helicopters.

Norway has stepped up security after last year’s bomb and gun carnage by anti-Islam terrorist Anders Behring Breivik.

On July 22, 2011, Breivik set off a car bomb outside government buildings in Oslo, killing eight people, before going to Utoeya Island, northwest of the capital, where he shot and killed another 69 people, mostly teenagers.

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