
Train Carrying 55 People Derails on Norway’s North Coast, Killing at Least 1 and Injuring 4
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—At least one person was killed and four people injured when a train running along Norway’s northern coast derailed Thursday with 55 people on board, police said. The Arctic Circle Express was on its way from Trondheim to the remote northern town of Bodoe, above the Arctic Circle, when it left the mountainside track. Police said they were alerted to the derailment at 1215 GMT. The four people injured were taken to a nearby hospital. Their condition was unclear. Those who were unhurt were taken by bus to the town of Mo i Rana, 140 miles south of Bodoe. Police told Norwegian news agency NTB that a rock slide likely caused the derailment of the train, which was made up of a locomotive and five carriages. The VG newspaper carried a photo of a huge rock on the track that had smashed into a train carriage....
