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Anders Behring Breivik, who admits killing 77 people in Norway last summer, was trying to kill the prime minister and other government ministers by bombing a building in Oslo, he testified Thursday, CNN reported.

The blast killed eight people, but Breivik said he considered it a failure because the building did not collapse.

Breivik is on trial on charges of voluntary homicide and committing acts of terror in the July 22 attacks. He admits carrying out the Oslo bombing and then shooting 69 people dead on nearby Utoya Island.

He boasts of being an ultranationalist who killed his victims to fight multiculturalism in Norway.

He decided to carry out a gun attack on a Labour Party youth camp on the island of Utoya after his initial plan to target a journalists' conference did not work out, he said.

He also hoped to kill former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and decapitate her with a knife or bayonet, he said. He planned to film the murder on his iPhone and upload the video to the Internet, he said.

He concentrated on killing people over the age of 18 on the island, he said, because he thought the killings of younger people would be harshly criticized.