Police outside the Blindern campus on Wednesday morning.
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One of the two fleeing men, however, turned and fired what police said were around four or five shots at the security guard, one of which hit him in the chest.
The guard, employed by private security firm Nokas, faces charges of filing a false police report.
The guard changed his initial statement during a lengthy interview after police presented new facts to him, she said. Metlid said the guard had created fear and triggered a major investigation after the discovery of the suspicious object.
Metlid refused to comment on whether police believed the other two incidents had also been invented.
A package made up to look like a bomb was left on the campus of the University of Oslo early on Wednesday, triggering an evacuation, Norwegian police said.
The area extending around the physics and chemistry buildings at the Blindern campus was secured both to give the bomb squad room to work and to prevent possible injuries.
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On Friday, the youth wing of Norway’s Labour Party plans to hold it’s first summer camp on the island of Utøya since the bloody massacre unleashed by the far-right extremist Anders Breivik in 2011.
