Tag: accidents

Alarms rang before ship lost power

Norway's Accident Investigation Board released a preliminary report Wednesday on the dramatic near-grounding of the cruiseship Viking Sky last spring. It reveals that a total...

Many responsible for frigate fiasco

UPDATED: The leader of Norway's state accident investigations board stressed on Friday that its role is not to place blame on who or what...

Man survived avalanche near Trollfjord

A 50-year-old man who's been a mountain guide for Queen Sonja survived an hour-and-a-half buried under the snow on Sunday, after an avalanche crashed...

Woman killed in fall off Hurtigruten ship

A woman believed to have been on board a Hurtigruten vessel died on Thursday after reportedly falling off the ship as it was arriving...

Ambulance hijacker ‘didn’t mean to hurt anyone’

The defense attorney for a 32-year-old Norwegian man who hijacked an ambulance earlier this week and led police on a dramatic chase around a...

Hijacker charged with attempted murder

UPDATED: Drama played out on the streets of Oslo Tuesday after a 32-year-old Norwegian man crashed his car and then hijacked an ambulance in...

Probe underway into oil tanker explosion

Oslo-based Stolt Tankers, part of the Stolt-Nielsen shipping concern, was thanking rescue services at the Port of Ulsan in South Korea after one of...

Trawler drama sparked trauma

A Russian trawler capsized at a pier in Tromsø late Thursday morning after first catching fire on Wednesday and burning through the night. The...

Landslide forces more evacuations

Residents of around 25 houses in Nittedal just north of Oslo don't know when they'll be able to return to their homes after a...

Equinor vows to clean up oil spill

Norway's state oil company Equinor (ex-Statoil) was being bashed by environmentalists over the weekend for failing to better secure its oil terminal in the...
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