A prepare carrying as much as 70 passengers derailed Thursday in northern Norway, injuring a number of individuals on board, authorities mentioned.
The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre of Northern Norway (JRCC NN) mentioned in a put up on X that they have been “engaged on the derailment of a prepare,” including that “50 to 70 individuals” have been onboard and the “extent of the injury” was unclear.
The prepare was headed to the northern city of Bodo when it derailed, with pictures from the scene exhibiting the locomotive and the primary of 5 carriages having slid down an incline subsequent to the monitor.
“Three helicopters are on the best way, plus emergency companies,” the JRCC NN mentioned.
A police official advised the broadcaster TV2 that they believed that they had managed to get everybody off the prepare, however they didn’t have a passenger manifest.
“We’ve got perhaps 5 to 6 injured; nobody has life-threatening accidents,” Bent Are Eilertsen advised TV2.
In line with authorities and witnesses talking to the media, huge boulders could possibly be seen on the tracks in entrance of the prepare, indicating {that a} landslide might have brought on the derailment.
AFP
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