Ten years after Breivik attacks, survivors seek to confront far-right extremism

Astrid Hoem, a survivor of the 2011 shooting on Utoeya, retraces the steps of her escape from Anders Behring Breivik, in Utoeya, Norway May 11, 2021. REUTERS/Gwladys Fouche

UTOEYA, Norway (Reuters) - Nearly 10 years after Anders Behring Breivik tried to kill her on the Norwegian island of Utoeya, Astrid Hoem is back there to explain to a group of teenagers how she ran for her life and hid in a beach cove while Breivik murdered others around her.

"He shot a girl next to me, in the back. She told me: 'please tell my parents I love them because I am going to die'," Hoem, 26, tells the high school students. The girl survived.