Tag: accidents
Oslo-Copenhagen ferry hit by fire
Around 550 passengers on board the DFDS cruise-ferry that sailed from Oslo Tuesday evening were ordered up to the top decks early Wednesday morning,...
Winter caught drivers unprepared
The wet and heavy snow that fell on lowland areas of southern and western Norway late last week heralded the end of autumn and the...
Heavy rains drench the southwest
Residents of Norway's southwest coast were mopping up on Thursday after heavy rains set off flooding and landslides. The main train line between Kristiansand...
Probe underway into train derailment
UPDATED: A portion of the main train line between Oslo and Stockholm was closed over the weekend after a passenger train derailed at Skotterud,...
Divers missing off Kristiansand
Two divers from Denmark remained missing, and feared dead, on Monday after they failed to resurface from a dive off the southern city of...
Fatal accident halted Dovrebanen
UPDATED: The railway line between Oslo and Trondheim known as Dovrebanen was halted on Wednesday after a passenger train collided with a truck on...
Search abandoned for missing men
The families and friends of two young Norwegian men still missing on Greenland have given up their search efforts and returned to Norway. Neither...
Risky sports were fatal for foreigners
Four Ukrainians who drowned in the rapids of the Sjoa River over the weekend, and a Russian who died after jumping off the famous...
Gulf crisis plays into Lofoten conflict
It took them a while, but Norwegian environmental advocates and some top politicians are now sounding alarms over BP's oil rig disaster in the...
Grounded ship’s captain sent to jail
The captain of a Chinese bulker that grounded off the Telemark coast last summer and set off Norway's worst oil spill ever has been...
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