3 dead in tourist bus crash in Norway

July 29, 2014 07:07 pm | Updated 07:07 pm IST - COPENHAGEN

Norwegian authorities said three people were killed and several injured when a tourist bus from Switzerland slammed into a mountainside in central Norway.

There were 17 people on the bus in Tuesday’s accident. Their nationalities were not immediately known.

The cause of the accident in the Nord-Troendelag district was not immediately known but the bus veered off the road and slammed into the mountainside.

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