The Oslo Central Station bombing ( no, Bombeattentatet på Oslo S) was a bomb attack on the central train station of Oslo, the

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of Norway, on 2 July 1982. The homemade bomb was hidden in a locker at Østbanehallen and the explosion caused extensive damage to the station. A young woman, Elin Stoltenberg Dahl was killed. Eight days after the attack, another bomb was found in the station's ticket hall, which had 2 kg more explosives. It failed to detonate. An unnamed 18-year-old man from

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was arrested a month later after a

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was fired. His fingerprints matched identically with the station bombing incident, and he later admitted carrying out the attack. His motive for the bombing was to extort the

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(NSB) for money. He was also convicted of 30 other criminal offences, including

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, shootings and also a plan to bomb a train track at

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. He was jailed for eleven years.

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