At least one person has been killed and four people injured when a train running along Norway’s northern coast derailed.
At least 50 people were on board the train, Norwegian media says.
Initial reports suggested that people with minor injuries were found at the scene.
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The train’s operator, SJ, earlier said 90 tickets had been sold but it could not immediately confirm how many people were on board when the carriages derailed at 12.38pm GMT (11.38pm on Thursday AEDT).
Police told NTB that a rock slide likely caused the derailment. The VG newspaper carried a photo of a huge rock on the track that had smashed into a train carriage.
The Arctic Circle Express was on its way from Trondheim to the northern town of Bodoe. NTB, citing the Joint Rescue Coordination Center for northern Norway, said there were “between 50 and 70 people on board the train”.
“We think all the passengers are out. But we are double checking the train as we do not have a passenger list,” police spokesman Bent Are Eilertsen told Norwegian broadcaster TV 2.
One of the passengers, Ingvart Strand Mølster, told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that “a rock has hit the train”.
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Strand Mølster said no one in his train carriage was hurt, with the exception of one person who suffered a minor ankle injury. Another passenger told the local newspaper Avisa Nordland that people were evacuated out through the windows.
NRK posted a video of the train which had left its mountainside tracks, crashing through trees and down onto the road, which was closed to traffic in the wake of the derailment.
Photos on Norwegian media showed the locomotive and what appeared to be at least two passenger cars. The derailment happened near Bodoe, just north of the Arctic Circle.
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