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Two die in ship blaze
An intense fire in a cruise ship’s engine room that killed two crewmen and injured nine others has forced passengers to evacuate a popular cruise off Norway’s western coast.
Police said they suspected an explosion in the engine room.
Thick black smoke billowed from the stern of the boat, the MS Nordlys, of Norway’s Hurtigruten line, even before it pulled into the dock at Aalesund, 230 miles northwest of Oslo.
Police sealed off parts of the town as the smoke engulfed nearby buildings.
The ship’s emergency evacuation saw more than 100 passengers piling into lifeboats in the cold waters. The rest of the ship’s 207 passengers and 55 crew were evacuated at the dock at Aalesund.
Hurtigruten said all the passengers were unharmed.
“There are no indications that the fire had spread to other rooms in the ship,” he said.
The MS Nordlys plies Norway’s western coast on the 2,500 kms cruise between Bergen and the northern town of Kirkenes, above the Arctic Circle near the Russian border.
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