A cargo ship has crashed into a person’s entrance backyard in Norway, lacking his residence, the place he was sleeping, by just some metres.
Johan Helber had been dozing when a 135m lengthy container ship ran aground Thursday morning within the Trondheimsfjord off Byneset in Trondheim.
No accidents or oil spills have been reported and authorities plan to take away the ship at excessive tide.
Photos present how shut the large ship got here to splintering by way of Mr Helber’s residence.
A container ship ran aground within the Trondheimsfjord, Trondheim, Norway.
Pic: AP
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A container ship ran aground within the Trondheimsfjord.
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Nonetheless, he did not wake in the course of the incident, and as an alternative, was solely later woken up when a neighbour rushed spherical to test if he was okay.
“The doorbell rang at a time once I do not actually like opening the door,” Mr Helber stated.
He went on: “I like to return to sleep. Nevertheless it was a really insistent ring, so I lastly went to reply it.
“And there is a man I do know very effectively standing there, me in amazement and saying: ‘Have you ever not seen the ship?’
“However I hadn’t. So I went to the window and noticed this [the ship].”
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Roger Gustafson, from the native police power, stated an investigation can be launched to attempt to discover out what occurred.
He added there was at the moment no suspicion of anybody being underneath the affect of medication or alcohol.
