Tag: accidents

Statoil narrowly avoided a blowout

Norway's state oil company Statoil has long nurtured a reputation of being a high-quality operator with a strong safety record, but now the regulators...

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...
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