In Norway, a bizarre incident unfolded on Thursday, May 22, when a 135-metre-long cargo ship, NCL Salten’ went off course and ran aground into the garden of a person’s home. The man’s house narrowly survived. The incident occurred in Trondheim fjord of Norway, at an area called Byneset.
135-metre cargo ship, NCL Salten, crashes into homeowner's garden,(Norway’s Trondheim fjord) barely missing his house: 'My neighbour knocked on the door and asked if I had seen the ship' (📸ANP / Jan Langhaug / NTB / AFP) pic.twitter.com/hDke5fK2et
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Images from the site show the gigantic cargo ship standing right on the garden, while a tugboat looms in the water.
The owner of the house, Johan Helberg was alerted by a panicked neighbour at 5 am in the morning, telling him that a ship has crashed into his garden.
“Five metres further south and it would have entered the bedroom,” Helberg told the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. “I didn’t hear anything.”
The Cyprus-flagged cargo ship, the NCL Salten, had 16 people on board and was travelling to Orkanger. No person on board was hurt.
