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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

‘It was so unreal’: Norwegian man wakes to cargo ship in his garden

The bow of a ship stuck in ground just metres from a wooden house
The NCL Salter ship just metres from Johan Helberg's house in Byneset, near Trondheim. Photograph: Joanne Fielder

A Norwegian man has spoken of the “unreal” moment he woke up to discover that a 135-metre container ship had crashed into his front garden.

The cargo vessel, the NCL Salten, had run aground just before 5am on Thursday after entering the Trondheim fjord on its way to the western town of Orkanger.

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