NEW YORK -- The "Bell of Hope" at New York City's historic St. Paul's Chapel has tolled in remembrance of Norway's massacre victims.
Norwegian Consul Aslaug Nygard (OW'-slahg NEE'-gohr) attended the ceremony Wednesday in Lower Manhattan.
The bell was a gift to New York from the city of London a year after 9/11.
It has been rung after the bombings in London, Madrid, Mumbai and Moscow; for the Virginia Tech massacre victims; and on 9/11 anniversaries.
The bell, a block from Manhattan's ground zero, was a gift to the historic church from the city of London after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It has sounded every September since and after terrorist attacks in other cities to pay tribute to the victims.
Wednesday, it was Norwegian Consul Aslaug Nygard's turn to ring the bell for her fallen compatriots. With it, the 76 people killed in last week's bombing and shooting spree were remembered here, near ground zero, the place synonymous with American tragedy.
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