Navy frigate sinking after oil tanker collision

An operation was under way on Thursday to try to stop a Norwegian navy frigate from sinking after it collided with a Maltese oil tanker in a fjord in western Norway. Eight people were injured in the accident, which took place after 4am in a busy waterway in the Hjeltefjord near Bergen, Norway’s army said. The 137 people on board the KNM Helge Ingstad frigate, which was returning from Nato’s Trident Juncture exercises, were rescued after the collision with the Sola TS tanker, the army said. “It took on a lot of water and there is a real danger that it sinks where it is,” an official for the Sola rescue centre told AFP. “We are doing everything we can to save the ship,” Lt Col Ivar Moen told AFP. “All available means have been mobilised.” The 62,000-tonne tanker was only slightly damaged and none of the 23 people on board were injured, the rescue centre said.