I could hear his breathing from the top of the rock

Shooting survivor says she hid behind the same rock the killer was standing on.

The man in the police uniform shouted for the campers to come closer. When they did,he killed them.

The gunman used his disguise to lure in his victims,then shot them twice to make sure they were dead,survivors said in the village of Sundvollen,where they were taken after the massacre.

I saw many dead people, said 15-year old Elise,whose father,Vidar Myhre,didnt want her to disclose her last name. She was just a few feet away from the gunman when he opened fire in the camp on Utoeya island.

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Elise said she had just come out from an information meeting in a nearby building when she heard gunshots. She saw a police officer and thought she was safe,but then he started shooting.

He first shot people on the island. Afterward he started shooting people in the water, she said.

Elise said she hid behind the same rock that the killer was standing on. I could hear his breathing from the top of the rock, she said.

Dana Berzingi said the fake police officer ordered people to come closer,then pulled weapons and ammunition from a bag and started shooting. Several victims had pretended as if they were dead to survive, the 21-year-old said. But after shooting the victims with one gun,the gunman shot them again in the head with a shotgun,he said.

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Erik Kursetgjerde,18,said,I heard screams…people begging for their lives and I heard shots. He just blew them away. I was certain I was going to die….People ran everywhere… panicked and climbed into trees. People got trampled.

Kursetgjerde said he ran and hid between cliffs,then swam out into the lake and nearly drowned.

When I swam out into the water he shot all my friends. He shot them when they were running away. I hid in a cave and had to lie in the water. He tried to lure people out by saying,Its safe,come out, said Thorbjoern Vereive,22.