A WEYMOUTH woman has spoken of her fear for her daughter who was in Oslo on the day a bomb exploded, bringing terror to the city.

Lyn Morgan Kjolas spent 30 years living in Norway and has been in constant contact with friends and family since the nation was hit by tragedy.

Seven people were killed in a bomb blast in the capital on Friday before a gunman killed at least 85 people at a youth camp on the island of Utoeya, around 20 miles away.

Right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik has admitted carrying out both attacks to police and is due to appear in court today.

Former teacher Mrs Morgan Kjolas, 62, said she was out in the garden when she got a phone call telling her about the Oslo bomb and she has been glued to the television news updates ever since.

Mrs Morgan Kjolas moved to Norway in 1971 and lived between Oslo and Utoeya, where she had two children with her husband, and who are both still living in the country.

Her immediate concern when she heard of the blast was for her daughter Elin, 37, who had been into the centre of Oslo that day.

She said: “She was actually shopping in Oslo that day and I had no idea whether she’d been in during the morning or the afternoon and Oslo isn’t a very big place.

“At first I couldn’t get through to her and I eventually got through by ringing her father-in-law’s home phone and he said he’d spoken to them.”

She added: “It was a very frightening situation to see that come up and realise my daughter was in town.”

Mrs Morgan Kjolas returned to Weymouth in 2001 when her second husband died, but still visits her friends and family in the country and last month she visited Oslo with her partner Brian Stevenson.

She said: “We were there on holiday and we were sitting literally five minutes walk from where this bomb went off in Oslo.

“You just don’t expect this sort of thing to happen in Norway.”