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Police said all those killed in the terror attacks in Oslo and on Utoya have been identified.

Mourners attend funeral of Bano Abobakar Rashid, 18, the first victim of shooting rampage at Utoya to be buried Friday.

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OSLO, Norway — Norway began burying the dead on Friday, a week after an anti-Muslim extremist killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage. Mourners of all ages vowed they would not let the massacre threaten their nation’s openness and democracy.

An 18-year-old Muslim girl was the first victim to be laid to rest since the gunman opened fire at a political youth camp and bombed the government headquarters in Oslo.

After a funeral service in the Nesodden church outside the capital, Bano Rashid, a Kurdish immigrant from Iraq, was buried in a Muslim rite. Sobbing youth accompanied her coffin, which was draped in a Kurdish flag.

The attack will “not destroy Norway’s commitment to democracy, tolerance and fighting racism,” Labor Party youth-wing leader Eskil Pedersen said at a memorial service in Oslo.

Pedersen, who was on the island retreat of Utoya when the gunman’s attack began, said: “Long before he stands before a court we can say: he has lost.”

Pedersen said the youth organization would return to Utoya next year for its annual summer gathering, a tradition that stretches back decades.

Police raised the death toll to 77, from 76, and said all those killed in the July 22 terror attacks in Oslo and on Utoya have now been identified and those reported missing have been accounted for.

Norway’s Police Security Service said the threat from right-wing extremists remains unchanged after Anders Behring Breivik’s attack. It said the 32-year-old Norwegian’s actions lack parallels in Europe or elsewhere, his views differ from the ideology of most racist and neo-Nazi groups, and very few people in Norway are capable of replicating what he did.

Since the massacre, questions have persisted about whether authorities had underestimated extremist dangers in Norway.

At Friday’s memorial service in Oslo at the assembly hall of the “People’s House,” a community center for Norway’s labor movement, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said: “Today it is one week since Norway was hit by evil.”

The bullets struck dozens of members of the youth faction of his Labor Party, but they were aimed at the entire nation, Stoltenberg said, on a stage adorned with red roses, the symbol of his party.

“I think July 22 will be a very strong symbol of the Norwegian people’s wish to be united in our fight against violence, and will be a symbol of how the nation can answer with love,” he told reporters after the ceremony.