"It's a bit too early to confirm whether this was a terrorist attack.
We keep getting more detailed information, but this needs to be
verified
.
The police are going through it, and we will come back with more
concrete
information as soon as we can."
President Obama has said that the attacks in Norway are a reminder that the world has a role in preventing this kind of terror from occurring. The Nato secretary general said that Nato countries stood united in the battle against acts of violence. The British foreign secretary said Britain stands
shoulder to shoulder
with Norway in the face of such atrocities.
The United Nations says government troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo carried out mass rapes of at least 47 women. The UN Office for Human Rights said the assaults were carried out over New Year in a village in north Kivu province. Here's our West Africa correspondent Thomas Fessy.
The UN says Congolese soldiers attacked the village with machetes, rifles and rocket-propelled grenades on the
pretext
that they were hunting rebels. They looted or burnt down at least 100 homes. The UN says the number of women raped could be even higher since some of the alleged victims fearing
reprisal
s refused to talk to the investigators. The Congolese Information Minister Lambert Mende told the BBC that the authorities would look into the allegations.
Thomas Fessy