NORWEGIAN students in Oxford held an emotional vigil yesterday in solidarity and support of their countrymen affected by the terror attacks.

The group of 16 language students lit candles and observed a minute’s silence in a short ceremony at Oxford and Cherwell Valley College, in Oxpens Road.

Many of the group, aged 14 to 17, are still unsure if friends and loved ones have been killed.

Sixteen-year-old student Karoline Nyhagen’s father worked in the Oslo building that was hit by the bomb blast.

She had faced a harrowing wait for news.

“I thought my father would be dead as he worked in the building,” she said.

“But he was at home.”

The majority of the group are from the capital Oslo, where police said the death toll could rise further as bodies were in buildings still too unstable to search.

Idun Grimstad, 17, added: “It is very hard to understand. We are in shock. Norway is such a small country, things like this never happen.”

Another student said her mother’s office had been destroyed, but thankfully she had not been at work that day.

Hanne Bakke is leading the group, which is set to return to Norway on Friday.

She said it had been hard for students to establish a clear picture of what was going on as phone lines were often engaged and reports were vague.

“We don’t know who has been affected yet and we don’t know if anyone we know is missing,” she said.

“We wanted to do this to honour and remember anyone who has been killed or who is missing and offer our support to families who have been affected by the massacre.”

“There are a lot of students from Oslo and they will go back to a city completely changed.

She added: “The whole group was together when we learned of this and were able to talk it through. They have been very calm, it is a very big thing to deal with.”

Suspect Anders Breivik, pictured below, who appeared in court behind closed doors in Norway yesterday, has reportedly claimed he was recruited by two English right-wing extremists at a meeting in the UK in 2002 attended by seven other people.

It has been reported that Breivik listed Prince Charles as a target in his online “manifesto” because he was patron of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.

The centre’s registrar Richard Makepeace said he was unaware of the mention but added: “Out thoughts are with the victims of this attack that was clearly the work of a mad man.

“His views and misguided opinions seem to be directed at the entire human race.”

* Prime Minister David Cameron has said that Britain shares in “the sorrow and the anger” over the attacks in Norway. Speaking at a press conference alongside Spanish counterpart Jose Zapatero in Downing Street, Mr Cameron said Britain will review its own security at home in the wake of the killings. He said: “Everyone in Britain shares in the sorrow and the anger at the despicable killing which took place on Friday. “Britain and Spain have both been victims of horrific acts of terrorism in the past and I know that both of us will be offering every support that we can to Norway in the days ahead.” Mr Cameron chaired a meeting of the National Security Council, which looked at the implications for Britain of the bombing and mass shooting which killed at least 93 people. Suspect Anders Breivik, who appeared in court behind closed doors in Norway, has reportedly claimed he was recruited by two English right-wing extremists at a meeting in the UK in 2002 attended by seven other people.