President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan extended condolences to the King of Norway, King Harald V with respect to tragic events on Utoya island, Oslo, according to Presidential press service.

Mr.Sargsyan noted that on this very painful moment Armenian people share the grief of friendly Norwegian people. This reprehensible crime underscores significance of fight against intolerance, according to him.

On July 22, a gunman who shot and killed at least 84 people at a youth summer camp hours after he set off a bomb blast that killed seven people in Norway capital, Oslo.

A suspect in the shootings and the Oslo explosion was arrested. Though police did not release his name, Norwegian national broadcaster NRK identified him as 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik and said police searched his Oslo apartment overnight