A Norwegian warship was repeatedly warned of its collision course with a Maltese oil tanker before then hitting it in a fjord, the BBC has been told.
The KNM Helge Ingstad has been listing dangerously since Thursday’s collision in the Hjeltefjord near Bergen.
All 137 of its crew were evacuated and eight people were injured. The frigate was returning from Nato military exercises. The tanker, the Sola TS, was slightly damaged but it appears that it did not spill oil.
The early morning incident led to the temporary shutdown of a major oil terminal and a gas plant.
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