Landslide: Highway collapses near Gothenburg

Stockholm. After a landslide, parts of a highway collapsed near a small town in western Sweden. Several cars are said to have fallen over the edge of the destroyed European road E6 near Stenungsund near Gothenburg. According to police, three people were taken to hospital on Saturday with minor injuries. Footage showed a long crack through the area near a gas station. Parts of the roof of a fast food restaurant collapsed.

Investigators are still faced with a mystery

There is still no clear picture of what happened and how it could have happened, the police said. According to the municipality of Stenungsund, the landslide occurred on Saturday night at around 1:20 a.m. According to Swedish media, special forces and search dogs searched the affected area to ensure that there were no people in the masses of earth.

Blasting on a construction site

Meanwhile, police launched an investigation into work at a construction site in the area. Blasts were carried out there. It is still unclear whether there is a connection to the landslide. Previous landslides in Sweden often had to do with heavy rainfall and also with the nature of the soil there.

E6 leads from north to south

The E6 was closed in both directions. In Scandinavia it runs over thousands of kilometers from the far north across large parts of Norway to the southern Swedish port city of Trelleborg, from where Baltic Sea ferries also cross to Rostock and Travemünde. Stenungsund is almost 40 kilometers north of Gothenburg.

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