'Loud bang,' damage reported at US Embassy in Norway; police investigating

Norwegian constabulary are investigating an onslaught connected the U.S. Embassy successful Oslo that caused nary injuries and lone insignificant damage.

Amid the warfare connected Iran, the Norwegian Justice Minister Astri Aas-Hansen is deploying "considerable resources" to hunt for imaginable aggregate perpetrators.

"This is an unacceptable incidental that we are taking precise seriously," she told Norwegian property bureau NTB.

A "loud bang" was reported astatine the U.S. embassy successful Oslo aboriginal Sunday greeting astatine 1 a.m. section clip (Saturday 7 p.m. ET), according to police, and eyewitnesses told Reuters that they saw heavy fume by the entranceway of the consular section.

Norwegian constabulary and technicians analyse an detonation astatine the U.S. Embassy successful Oslo, Norway connected Sunday morning.  (Hans O. Torgersen /NTB Scanpix via AP)

"There was a precise heavy furniture of fume connected the street," said Sebastian Toerstad, 18, a precocious schoolhouse pupil who drove past the embassy astatine the clip of the explosion.

"There was immoderate harm to the entrance."

No explosive devices had been recovered successful the area, according to police.

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"Investigations person been carried retired astatine the country with the assistance of dogs, drones and a helicopter, searching for 1 oregon much imaginable perpetrators," the Oslo constabulary section said successful a statement.

PST, the Norwegian constabulary information service, called successful further unit pursuing the incidental but has not changed the country's panic menace level, according to connection advisor Martin Bernsen.

Norwegian constabulary are extracurricular the U.S. Embassy successful Oslo, Norway successful the aboriginal hours of Sunday, March 8, 2026, aft reports of an explosion. (Javad Parsa/NTB Scanpix via AP)

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PST operations manager Mikael Dellemyr does not "connect" the onslaught to U.S. bombings successful the Middle East oregon violent oregon Iranian retaliation.

"It is acold excessively early" successful the investigation, helium told Oslo's TV 2.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the State Department for comment, but they did not instantly respond.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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