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Gavin Blackburn

Navigator charged with negligence after cargo ship crashes into Norway garden

Norwegian prosecutors have charged the navigator of a cargo ship after he allegedly fell asleep on duty and the vessel ran aground in one of the country's fjords last week, narrowly missing crashing into a home.

The ship, the Cyprus-flagged NCL Salten, ran aground shortly before 6 am Thursday, stopping short of crashing into the house of Johan Helberg on the Trondheim Fjord's coast.

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