Norway security guard charged with perjury for bomb scare

Norwegian police on Thursday charged a security guard with perjury after he confessed to shooting himself and placing a bomb-like object at the University of Oslo that caused a bomb scare drama around the campus the day before, local media reported.

"What has happened is serious as he (the unidentified security guard) has created fear, insecurity and a huge investigation," Grete Lien Metlid, head of the Oslo police force's violent crimes unit, told local newspaper VG.

The motive for the alleged crimes is still unknown.

On Wednesday morning, Norwegian police cordoned off an area around the Blindern campus of the University of Oslo and a no-fly zone was also imposed over the district after a suspicious bomb-like object was found.

But at noon Oslo police staff chief Johan Fredriksen told a press conference that the object had been defused by bomb squad and it turned out that there were no real explosives in it, but further investigations continue.

The bomb scare drama came after a report that the security guard was shot in the same area overnight, but was not seriously injured because he was wearing a bullet-proof vest. It was said at that time that two suspects were involved in the shooting.

Heine Wang, CEO of Norwegian security company Nokas AS, the security guard's employer, told news agency NTB that the man has been suspended and it may be "a matter of great personal tragedy" for the watchman to have shot himself. Endit