Interview with a Survivor —CNN in Oslo
Oslo, Norway (CNN) — A young man who survived a gunman’s two-hour rampage on Norway’s Utoya Island that left 80 people dead says he is alive because he played dead, grabbing on to bodies around him.
Adrian Pracon’s account provided the clearest detail to date of Friday’s shooting attack at the ruling Labour Party’s youth camp that police said left at least 80 dead people. The attack came shortly after an explosion killed seven others in Oslo, Norway.
“Me and two others were laying down and survived because of the bodies we could hang on to and pretend that we are dead,” Pracon told CNN early Saturday by telephone from his hospital room.