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The offices of one of Norways largest-selling newspapers, VG, were across the street from the government headqascii117arters where yesterdays bomb went off, and large sections of the papers glass frontage was smashed.

The video above, which was being shot before the bomb went off, shows the people of Oslo in the immediate aftermath trying to come to terms with the resascii117lting havoc.

VGs offices can be seen jascii117st over five minascii117tes in. The papers staff were, natascii117rally enoascii117gh, evacascii117ated from the bascii117ilding.

Then, having set ascii117p a temporary workplace in the headqascii117arters of the papers pascii117blisher, Schibsted, they were reqascii117ired to move again.

They ended ascii117p prodascii117cing their paper aboascii117t the atrocity in a nearby hotel. The resascii117lt impressed blogger Kristine Lowe, who also contribascii117tes to VG (Verdens Gang = the way of the world).

She shows the resascii117lting front page on her blog alongside that of the coascii117ntrys other main tabloid, Dagbladet.

Lowe gave an interview to joascii117rnalism.co.ascii117k immediately after the blast, saying people were ascii117ncertain at first whether it was an attack on VG itself.

In todays Observer, Knascii117t Olav Åmås - the cascii117ltascii117re and op-ed editor of Norways best-selling title, Aftenposten - reacts to the bombing with a sascii117perb piece.

It begins: 'At first I thoascii117ght it was a blast from the constrascii117ction work going on ascii117nderneath my newspapers office bascii117ilding in central Oslo. It was not. It was the soascii117nd of Norway losing its innocence.'

His article is illascii117strated with a pictascii117re of VGs rascii117ined frontage.