Tag: accidents

Another fire in Bergen forced evacuations

One woman was seriously injured and a man suffered minor injuries after the second major fire in historic downtown Bergen in the past week....

Fire sparked fear and injury in Bergen

A dramatic fire in downtown Bergen forced the evacuation of 22 people Thursday night and left several injured as it threatened an historic neighbourhood. Witnesses...

Trains delayed even without a strike

Commuters and other passengers of state railway NSB avoided the disruption of a strike threatened by locomotive engineers on Thursday. They couldn't avoid the...

Drama at sea for German fishermen

Three German fishermen survived 13 harrowing hours in the chilly seas off Averøya on Norway's northwest coast after their small rented fishing boat capsized in...

Highway repairs re-connect Troms and Finnmark

The vital E6 highway in Northern Norway, the only road that connects the counties of Troms and Finnmark, reopened at Sørkjosen on Tuesday after a...

Driver who ran over girls sentenced to jail

A 48-year-old motorist who ran down and killed two young girls who were out exercising a horse pulling their sulky was sentenced to five months in...

Landslide cut off Finnmark traffic

State highway officials were scrambling on Monday to try to reopen a portion of the main E6 highway in Northern Norway that connects the...

SAS flight made emergency landing

A Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) jet bound for Oslo with 169 passengers on board had to make an emergency landing in Aberdeen, Scotland on Sunday...

Norway mourns envoy’s death

UPDATED: Norway's ambassador to Pakistan was among diplomats killed on Friday when a military helicopter carrying them on a sightseeing tour crashed in the mountainous Gilgit...

Sailboat crew caught in wave ‘inferno’

Four Norwegian men who were sailing a 44-foot boat across the Atlantic said they were caught in an "inferno" of 15-meter-high waves after sailing into...
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