Several thousand gathered in the streets of Oslo on Saturday to walk the route to the canceled Pride parade.

Oslo Pride 2017 - Photo by Christer Nexmark / Oslo Pride
Photo by Christer Nexmark / Oslo Pride 2017

Several thousand gathered in the streets of Oslo on Saturday to walk the route to the canceled Pride parade.

The official parade was canceled on Saturday after a man shot several people outside two nightclubs in Oslo last night. Two people are dead and several injured. The incident is being investigated as terrorism NRK reports.

Oslo Pride canceled the parade after «clear advice and recommendations» from the police. They have asked everyone not to attend the Pride celebration, but rather to celebrate at home and in the neighbourhood according to NRK .

On Saturday, several thousand people still took to the streets of Oslo to create a parade – going the same route as the Official Pride parade should have went today – the unofficial Pride parade ended up at London Pub where the centre of terror attack in the early hours of Saturday.

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