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Kenya terror suspect made calls to Norway

The 23-year-old Somali Norwegian suspected of involvement in last month's terror attack on Kenya's Westgate Mall made several phone calls to Norway while he was participating in the attack, Norway's TV2 network has reported.

Published: 15 October 2013 07:51 CEST
Kenya terror suspect made calls to Norway
PST chief Benedicte Bjørnland - PST
The Norwegian man can be seen in a surveillance video taken during the attack, the channel reports, firing off shots at Kenyan police as they try to storm the terrorists. 
 
Norway's intelligence services PST last week disclosed that they were investigating the role a Norwegian citizen played in the attack, after receiving information on the 23-year-old. 
 
According to VG newspaper, the man came to Norway in 1999 and has worked as a telemarketer and warehouse employee. 
 
PST on Monday spent several hours interviewing a relative of the man, who, VG reports, knew nothing about the suspect's involvement in radical terrorist groups. 
 
According to the relative, the man was in Somalia the last time they spoke.  
 
According to TV2's sources, the man had left Norway and join Al-Shabaab, the radical Somali group.

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Airline Norwegian posts 15 billion kroner loss after nightmare 2020

Low cost airline Norwegian has registered a loss of 14.9 billion Norwegian kroner for 2020, a year in which the company saw a drastic reduction in passenger numbers and was on the brink of bankruptcy.

Published: 26 February 2021 13:18 CET
A file photo of a Norwegian Air Shuttle plane in Finland.
A file photo of a Norwegian Air Shuttle plane in Finland. Heikki Saukkomaa / Lehtikuva / AFP

Low cost airline Norwegian has registered a loss of 14.9 billion Norwegian kroner for 2020, a year in which the company saw a drastic reduction in passenger numbers and was on the brink of bankruptcy.

The company published its annual results on Friday, revealing the huge operating loss.

Norwegian’s 2019 result, a loss of around 1.7 billion kroner, had put the company in a difficult position even prior to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The coronavirus outbreak and its consequent travel restrictions reduced the company’s passenger numbers to 6.9 million in 2020. That is 29 million fewer than in 2019.

Not all of the loss is due to fewer passengers. Around half of the company’s devaluation is attributed to a depreciation of the value of its aircraft fleet, news wire Ritzau reports.

“2020 was an exceptionally demanding year for air travel and for Norwegian,” CEO Jacob Schram said in a statement on the annual results.

“In light of that, the result for the fourth quarter (of 2020) is not surprising. Unfortunately, the majority of our employees are furloughed and many have lost their jobs – in part because of the closure of long distance services,” he added.

The company was already in debt prior to the pandemic and is now under bankruptcy protection in Ireland and is undergoing similar process in Norway.

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