2023-09-23 15:32:59
A portion of European Route 6 linking Trelleborg, in Sweden, to Kirkenes, in Norway, via Oslo collapsed on Saturday, September 23, near Gothenburg in south-west Sweden, emergency services and police said. police.
The landslide that occurred shortly before 2 a.m. “affected around ten vehicles, a forest area and a commercial area including a gas station and a fast restaurant”, said Daniel Lyckelid, an emergency services manager in the Gothenburg region in a statement. The most affected area covers an area of 100 meters by 150 meters but in total, the landslide extends over an area of approximately 700 meters by 200 meters, emergency services said.
Three people were taken to hospital for “minor injuries” following the collapse, which occurred in Stenungsund (????), 50 km north of Gothenburg, said police spokesperson August Brandt.
Several weeks of work to be expected
Local media images show a large breach running more than a hundred meters, with several trucks damaged and tilted while a bus has sunk into a hole. Large cracks crack the parking lot of a gas station and the roof of the nearby Burger King fast food restaurant has partly collapsed. A wooded area has subsided significantly.
A preliminary investigation for “aggravated public destruction”has been opened and investigators will question staff at a nearby construction site where explosions took place, police said in a statement. “It is not certain whether there is a link between the blasting, the work on the site and the collapse”adds the police.
The risk of other landslides cannot be excluded at this stage, according to emergency services. The Swedish National Transport Administration is planning a closure of this section of the E6 motorway for several weeks.
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