Rescuers work to save bus passengers after crash kills at least three
A bus crash has killed at least three people in Norway after running into rough conditions and swerving off the road.
The accident happened around 1:30 pm local time when the bus came off the road and ended up partially submerged in Åsvatnet lake, according to public broadcaster NRK.
58 people are believed to have been travelling on it at the time in the Hadsel district on the country’s north-western coast.
Writing on social media, The Norwegian Red Cross said it was sending teams to help with a ‘serious bus accident’ on the E10 road.
Heavy snowdrifts and high winds were reported in the area before the crash.
Emergency workers are on site to help (Picture: AP)
At least three people are thought to have died in the accident (Picture: Norwegian Public Roads Administration)
Bent Are Eilertsen from Nordland Police said many of the passengers are foreign nationals, according to local reports.
Martin Reberg, general manager of Boreal Buss AS – a Norwegian bus company – said the crash involved one of their vehicles while it was on a trip from Narvik to Lofoten, VG reports.
Rescue leader Ørjan Delbekk told VG the bus is partially underwater and the extent of the damage is not yet clear.
He said a large rescue operation is underway.
Randi Angelsen, Nordland’s communications manager, told VG: ‘Additional resources including personnel, ambulances, helicopters and aircraft resources have been called in to transport injured people to the hospital.’
Martin Reberg, general manager of Boreal Buss AS, said: ‘This is a serious incident, and we have set up a crisis team in Boreal.
‘We are cooperating with the emergency services and of course assisting with all the resources we can.’
A local resident said: ‘There were a lot of emergency services, panic and chaos at the scene.
‘It looked like they were in control. The helicopter landed just as we were there.’
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