Details in Norway massacre arrest emerge

OSLO, Norway, July 28 (UPI) -- The man responsible for the bombing and shooting spree in Norway surrendered peacefully with loaded weapons nearby, police reports indicated.

Before his surrender, however, Anders Behring Breivik spent nearly two hours terrorizing members of the Labor Party's youth organization at their annual summer camp on Utoya Island, as well as support personnel and members of Norwegian Peoples Aid attending a seminar, Views and News from Norway reported Wednesday.

New details also indicate Breivik reportedly laughed as he roamed around the island randomly shooting and killing 68 people. He also detonated a bomb in downtown Oslo, killing eight others.

"He seemed to enjoy shooting at us," a camper told Norwegian Broadcasting.

Breivik was in an isolation unit at Ila Prison near Oslo.

A special forces team assembled to respond to the attack on the island had to wait for a ferry because there was no regularly scheduled ferry service to Utoya and a police boat had developed motor trouble, operations leader Havard Gasbakk told a news conference Wednesday. Police commandeered two private boats to travel to the island.

Gasbakk said Breivik was arrested about two minutes after police landed.

"We got closer and we could hear shooting the whole time," Gasbakk said. "When we got closer we started using our voices, yelling that we were armed police and that he must surrender."

"Suddenly the perpetrator was standing right in front of us with his hands over his head," Gasbakk said.

The operations leader said Beivik's still-loaded weapons were nearby on the ground, News and Views reported.

Breivik was held in a facility on the island until he was transferred to the mainland several hours later, officials said.