COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) 鈥� At least one person was killed and four people injured when a train running along Norway鈥檚 northern coast derailed Thursday with at least 50 people on board, Norwegian media reported.
Initial reports suggested that people with minor injuries were found at the scene.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP鈥檚 earlier story follows below.
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Train operator SJ said 90 tickets for the train had been sold but it could not immediately say how many people were on board.
Police spokesman Kenneth Lauritsen told the newspaper Dagbladet that one person had died in the derailment. Five or six people were injured. Police earlier had told Norwegian news agency NTB that people with minor injuries were found at the scene. They were alerted to the derailment at 1238 GMT.
Police told NTB that a rock slide likely caused the derailment. The VG newspaper carried a photo of a huge rock on the track that had smashed into a train carriage.
The Arctic Circle Express was on its way from Trondheim to the northern town of Bodoe. NTB, citing the Joint Rescue Coordination Center for northern Norway, said there were 鈥渂etween 50 and 70 people on board the train.鈥�
鈥淲e think all the passengers are out. But we are doublechecking the train as we do not have a passenger list,鈥� police spokesman Bent Are Eilertsen told Norwegian broadcaster TV 2.
One of the passengers, Ingvart Strand M酶lster, told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that 鈥渁 rock has hit the train."
Strand M酶lster said no one in his train carriage was hurt, with the exception of one person who suffered a minor ankle injury. Another passenger told the local newspaper Avisa Nordland that people were evacuated out through the windows.
NRK posted a video of the train which had left its mountainside tracks, crashing through trees and down onto the road, which was closed to traffic in the wake of the derailment.
Photos on Norwegian media showed the locomotive and what appeared to be at least two passenger cars. The derailment happened near Bodoe, just north of the Arctic Circle.
Jan M. Olsen, The Associated Press
