Two individuals have been rescued after a picket highway bridge collapsed right into a river in southern Norway.
Police have been alerted shortly after 07:30 CEST in regards to the accident in Øyer Municipality. The collapse despatched a automotive plunging into the river, whereas a truck was left in a virtually vertical place on a collapsed part.
The drivers of each automobiles have been rescued in good well being, police mentioned in a assertion. "There isn't a indication that extra individuals are concerned," they added.
The almost 150-meter-long bridge connects the west financial institution of the Gudbrandsdalslågen River and the village of Tretten.
It opened in 2012, and the reason for the collapse was not instantly clear.
“It's fully catastrophic, fully unreal,” native mayor Jon Halvor Midtmageli instructed the Dagbladet newspaper. “Additionally it is a reasonably new bridge."
"It's fully destroyed, every part has fallen down,” he added.
The Norwegian Car Federation mentioned the bridge had been checked in 2021, elevating concern in regards to the security of such bridges.
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