Update | Taiwanese tourist killed, others injured in Norway tour bus crash
A news agency said a woman from Norway and a woman from Taiwan had died
Two people were killed and several seriously injured on Monday when two buses, one Norwegian and one Swedish with foreign tourists aboard, collided in western Norway, local authorities said.
The NTB news agency said that a woman from Norway and a woman from Taiwan had died.
The frontal collision took place late Monday afternoon as the two buses travelled on a road connecting the towns of Sogndal and Lekanger, the head of local police operations, Hans Petter Harlem, said.
Sogndal mayor Jarle Aarvoll told news channel TV2 Nyhetskanalen that two people were killed and several were seriously injured.
According to police, a total of around 30 passengers were on board the two buses. The nationalities of the passengers were not immediately known.
Aarvoll said some of them were Chinese, while police said some were Taiwanese.