Six children in a canoe accident in Sweden and two people from the frozen lake in Larvik – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Tuesday night came into numerous reports of various accidents.

First, near the Norwegian border where six children were involved in a canoe accident. Then came news that two people were picked up from the water outside Larvik.

Two retrieved

A major rescue operation taking place after notification of a possible drowning accident at Mølen in Larvik. Two people have already picked up from the water, writes Tønsberg Blad.

Two people are taken to Ullevål hospital. A Sea King rescue helicopter and one by air ambulance, police officials clock 19.36.

Operations in Vestfold Police, Jan Kristian Johnsrud, told Dagbladet that they are still searching for more people, but that no necessarily suspect that they are going to find more. He will however not speculate on the cause.

– We are working to figure it out. Can not say anything about it yet, he says to Dagbladet.

The accident location is a familiar and popular hiking and is also a place windsurfers often make use of.

Six children

One child is reported missing and two have been sent to hospital after a total of six children in the 10-12 age overturned canoe in Ånnsjöen in Åre municipality at the Norwegian border. The type NTB.

– We do not know if it’s trøndere involved, says operations Bård Krogstad at Nord-Trøndelag Police District told NRK.

The police have been asked to assist in search along with divers from Trondheim and Mountain Rescue in Meråker. Swedish police also ask others for help.

Hans Engqvist, länshavande officers by policy in Ostersund, told adressa.no at 19 o’clock that the rescue operation is called off after all the children are rescued ashore.

– Two of them are sent to St. Olav’s Hospital, while one was sent to hospital in Östersund. They have been refrigerated after lying in the water, says Engqvist.