Hundreds of survivors made a difficult, first return Saturday to the tiny Norwegian island where 69 of their friends were gunned down in cold blood by a rightwing extremist four weeks before. Though police had cleaned up signs of the July 22 bloodbath on Utoeya island, it was still fresh for many of the young escapees braving the visit in hopes of finding some closure to an ordeal that deeply shocked the entire nation.
"I know this is going to be a very difficult day to live through but I also know this is necessary to lighten my burden in the future," said Adrian Pracon, 21, who was wounded in the shoulder by one of Anders Behring Breivik's bullets. In a Twitter post Saturday morning, he said: "This is going to be the second worst day of my life."
Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg joined the survivors on the island some 40 kilometres (25 miles) north-west of Oslo, where Behring Breivik attacked a summer camp for members of the youth wing of his ruling Labour Party.
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