According to estimates, there were 50-70 passengers on the train at the time of the incident. According to the Norwegian media, one train car and a locomotive derailed.
15:53•Updated 16:31
A passenger train on its way from Trondheim to Bodø has derailed in Norway, the Norwegian Broadcasting Company says among other things NRK and an afternoon newspaper VG.
The accident happened on the railway section between the settlement of Bjerka and the town of Mo i Rana. The rescue authorities are there to investigate the accident scene.
Nordland county police chief Bent Are Eilertsen tells NRK that injured people have been found at the accident site. However, according to preliminary information, no one has been seriously injured, says a spokesperson for the Norwegian railway company SJ Eva Paulsen for VG.
According to NRK’s information, the Helgeland hospital has issued a disaster alert.
Mediated by VG in pictures you can see a locomotive and a train car lying on the slope opposite the E6 road on the outskirts of the village of Finneidjord.
According to the rescue service of Northern Norway, there were 50-70 passengers in the passenger train that derailed in Nordland at the time of the incident, reports NRK. According to NRK and VG, one train car and a locomotive derailed. There were five train cars behind the locomotive at the time of the accident.
– A passenger train has derailed north of Bjerka. We have been told that there are 50-70 people on the train. The extent of the damage is not yet known, says the deputy rescue director Håvard Svenning From the Central Rescue Service of Northern Norway.
Spokesperson for the Norwegian Rescue Service Anja Bakken says that the situation is currently “very unclear”.
– We have not received reports of major damage, but the situation is so unclear that we cannot say that there is no damage, because we do not know, Bakken told NRK.
The passengers on the train interviewed by NRK describe the situation as “dramatic”.
– First there was braking and then I realized that something was happening. Then it just banged, banged and banged, says a passenger on the train Jan Kenneth Transeth.
VG, on the other hand, has interviewed a person who drove past the accident scene by chance.
– We ran to the spot to do something, but we had to leave because we were afraid the carriage would fall [rinteestä]. It was very painful because there was nothing we could do, said the person who spoke to VG on condition of anonymity.
The news is updated.