Tag: accidents

More reindeer run over by cargo train

Another 17 reindeer were run over and killed by a train on Wednesday, after they'd wandered onto open railroad tracks while grazing in north...

Errant trains slaughter reindeer herds

State railroad agency Bane NOR had been alerted to grazing reindeer along a stretch of its Nordlandsbanen line through Helgeland over the weekend, but...

Community mourns boy’s drowning

"We're just all very sad here," said the mayor of Askim, a rural town southeast of Oslo, after police divers found the body of...

Two found dead after fire at metals firm

An explosive fire swept through a metals firm at Eina in Toten, Oppland County, Friday morning. Four workers were on the job when the...

Soldier killed during mine-clearing demonstration

Flags flew at half-mast at army  installations around Norway during the weekend, after a soldier was killed while demonstrating mine-clearing equipment on a shooting range...

Helicopter wreckage set to be retrieved

A remote-controlled submarine sent to Svalbard by the Norwegian military has located the wreckage of a Russian helicopter that crashed into the sea off...

Search widened for missing helicopter

UPDATED: The search continued on Friday for a Russian MI-8 helicopter with eight people on board that crashed into the sea just off Svalbard's...

Seljord boating tragedy killed three

UPDATED: Tragedy struck the mountain community at Seljord in the heart of Telemark County after a boat carrying six people capsized in the large...

Bomb from World War II forces evacuation

Residents of Vallø in Tønsberg were under evacuation orders on Friday after another non-detonated bomb from World War II was found near an old...

Probe launched into small plane crash

Aviation experts were continuing an investigation into what caused a small two-seater plane to crash into a field at Furnes in Ringsaker on Tuesday,...
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