Tag: accidents

Car carrier freed from sandbank

The large Norwegian-owned car carrier that was intentionally run aground in the English Channel last weekend was finally freed from its sandbank with some help...

Police probe fatal fire

Norway's national police investigative unit Kripos has been called in to help probe a fire in a community-owned residential building at Solbergmoen in Nedre Eiker...

Ship accidents under investigation

UPDATED: Two major accidents involving Norwegian ships, one of them with multiple fatalities, were under investigation this week. Officials and the vessels' owners need...

Extreme weather soaks the north

Roads turned into rivers, avalanche danger soared and highway crews were having a very hard time battling the elements as the storm called "Mons" doused Nordland and other...

Slide halts Oslo-Bergen train line

UPDATED: A rock- and landslide at Dale in the mountains of southwestern Norway crashed down Wednesday morning on the railroad tracks used by Bergensbanen,...

Dead whale shot to avoid explosion

Norway's Coast Guard faced a grim and smelly task over the weekend: Discarding a dead whale whose cadaver was in danger of exploding. The dead...

Tsunami victims remembered

More than 80 Norwegians were killed in the tsunami that ravaged coastal areas around the Indian Ocean 10 years ago. Most of them were on...

Hockey team’s driver suffered fatal heart attack

A bus carrying Storhamar's premier league ice hockey team ran off the road on its way to a match in Lillehammer on Sunday afternoon, when...

Telenor customers lost coverage

Many customers of Norway's largest telecoms firm, Telenor, were without mobile phone coverage along the west coast on Tuesday. Lightning and strong winds that...

Bus collision injures 24

A head-on collision between two buses at Lindeberg in Oslo Monday morning left 24 people injured, three of them seriously. The driver of one...
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