Breivik victims' parents too traumatised to work four years on, research shows

Six out of 10 parents are still struggling with intense grief over the 2011 massacre, while two out of three show symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder

Four years after Anders Behring Breivik went on a murderous rampage at a summer camp for young people in Norway, parents of the 69 people he killed on Utøya island are still too traumatised to return to full-time work, according to research.

Six out of 10 parents are still struggling with intense grief, while two out of three still have significant symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a paper in the journal Scandinavian Psychologist published on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the terror attacks.

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