B.C.'s Norwegian community is in shock following Friday's deadly attacks in Norway that left more than 90 people dead.
At the Sons of Norway Country Club in Mission, B.C., many Norwegians have gathered to grieve and support one another. Many are calling friends and relatives and trying to get information from Oslo.
Before moving to Vancouver in 2002, Morten Rand Henrickson lived and worked near Norway's government headquarters, where a car bomb killed seven people.
"It's inhuman," Henrickson said. "There's no other way to explain it. When I lived in Oslo, I used to walk through there. It was one of those things you see all the time, and now you see this post-apocalyptic view of it."
Henrickson has also been to Utoya, the island where a gunman massacred at least 85 people at a youth camp.
Erik Brochmann, another member of the Sons of Norway, is waiting for word from Oslo.
"A neighbour of ours over here, her girlfriend from high school's child was missing -- one of the missing persons. That's the closest we've got to this," Brochmann said.
Brochmann is thankful that his family is safe, but he still has questions about how this could have happened in his normally peaceful homeland.
"Everyone is stunned now and no one knows how to deal with this," he said. "I can't say that enough, ‘it doesn't happen, this doesn't happen, it can't happen.' No one knows how to deal with it."
Henrickson hopes that his homeland can rise above this tragedy.
"I'm hoping what will happen now in Norway is people will come together and this will not happen again," he said.
With a report from CTV British Columbia's Shannon Paterson
