First funerals for victims of the terror attacks in Norway last week have taken place as Oslo detectives prepare to interview a member of the English Defence League about his links to the perpetrator.
On Friday night police said that the death toll had risen to 77 from 76 as they released the full list of the dead. Eight of the victims were killed by the bomb attack by Anders Behring Breivik in Oslo's government district and 69 died after he shot them at a political youth camp on the island of Utøya. No explanation was given for the increase.
At a memorial service in the assembly hall of the People's House, a community centre for Norway's labour movement, the prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, reiterated his message for the attacks to lead to unity rather than fear.
After the ceremony he said: "I think 22 July will be a very strong symbol of the Norwegian people's wish to be united in our fight against violence, and will be a symbol of how the nation can answer with love."
Among the dead was Bano Rashid, an 18-year-old Kurdish Muslim immigrant from Iraq, who on Friday was the first victim to be laid to rest since the atrocities on 22 July. As her friends sobbed at her funeral in the Nesodden church outside the capital, Breivik was questioned for the second time by detectives following his admission that he had carried out the attacks but was not guilty of terrorism charges because he is in a "state of war".
The funeral of another victim, Ismail Haji Ahmed, 19, took place in the town of Hamar.
At least one Briton will be questioned in relation to the attacks, a Norwegian police lawyer said on Friday. Pal-Fredrik Hjort Kraby revealed that officers would be contacting Paul Ray, an activist with the English Defence League who blogs under the name Lionheart.
He revealed that Breivik's demeanour during the first hours of his second interrogation was broadly similar to that encountered on Saturday.
Meanwhile Breivik's lawyer, Geir Lippestad, was quoted in a Norwegian newspaper saying his client was planning to hit other targets.
"There were several projects of different scale for that Friday," Aftenposten quoted him as saying.
"Things happened that day, which I don't want to go into (here), which meant events unfolded differently from what he had planned.
Pointing to the mounting evidence, the Norwegian king's prosecutor general, Tor Aksel Buschhe, said: "We hope that we can conduct the court trial in the course of next year."
He added that Breivik's indictment "will not be ready before the end of the year" - despite the fact that he has confessed to both the bombing and the shooting.
Norwegian police said on Friday they have identified all bodies recovered after the bombing and shooting massacres.
Oslo police chief-of-staff Johan Fredriksen said: "We can confirm that all the dead have been identified."
In addition, there was a memorial service in Oslo held by the youth movement of the Norwegian Labour party, which was the target of the shootings on Utoya island.
Norway's prime minister Jens Stoltenberg led the ceremony, and was joined by most of his government and bereaved relatives, while the national flag will fly at half-mast all day.
The 52-year-old said: "Today it is one week since Norway was hit by evil. There are so many heroes since last Friday. We would like to say thank you to all of them.
"The bullets hit our young, but they also struck an entire nation. Many of the victims are very sick in hospital still. Many of them are carrying invisible sores and are bleeding inside. They are not alone.
"Our movement will be the shoulder you are allowed to cry on. We still find it difficult to understand. We have to live with July 22 forever, but together we will make it. We will not be broken.
"We shall remember the dead heroes for ever. We are a movement for solidarity. We are going to sing for dead heroes. Most importantly we should stick to our ideals.
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