Tag: accidents

Rig workers took to the lifeboats

Workers on board Statoil's Oseberg Øst platform in the North Sea had to spend two hours in the rig's lifeboats during the night after...

Paper clips secured polar bear wire

An independent report into a British schoolboy's death on Svalbard in 2011, when he was mauled to death by a polar bear, found critical...

Toddler dies from dog bite wounds

A two-year-old girl who was badly bitten by one of her family's dogs on their Norwegian farm late last week died over the weekend from...

Man fell 600 meters into North Sea

A man in his 30s died on Wednesday after he "managed to get himself out" of a rescue helicopter airlifting him to hospital from Statoil's Troll...

Prosecutor approves new ferry fire probe

Norway's state prosecutor Tor-Aksel Busch has gone along with the Oslo police chief's recommendation to reopen the investigation into the deadly fire on board...

Adventurer convicted for Antarctic trip

Jarle Andhøy, the controversial adventurer whose crew went missing during a storm in Antarctica three years ago, was convicted Monday for sailing back into...

Expert now blasts ferry fire report

Last week he was expressing relief and satisfaction that Oslo's police chief recommended opening a new investigation into the deadly fire on board the...

Police launch new probe of ferry fire

With many questions around the tragic "Scandinavian Star" ferry fire of 1990 never answered, Oslo's police chief announced Friday that he wants to launch...

Hit and run driver sent to jail

A Norwegian woman in her 40s who ran down a 12-year-old boy while driving under the influence of narcotics in the winter of 2013,...

Mobile madness behind the wheel

Three out of four Norwegian drivers chatter away or even send text messages on hand-held mobile phones while driving, according to a recent study...
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