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The
landslide damaged the motorway between Sweden's second-biggest
city Gothenburg and Norway's capital Oslo, near the small town
of Stenungsund, around 50 km north of Gothenburg on Sweden's
west coast.
"The hardest hit parts of the landslide area measure around 150
x 100 meters. In total, however, the landslide has affected an
area of around 700 x 200 meters," the Gothenburg Rescue Services
said in a statement.
The slide affected around ten vehicles, a wooded area, a
business area with a gas station and a fast food restaurant, the
rescue services said.
"A number of people have been helped out of vehicles in the
slide area with the help of fire personnel and a helicopter."
Several cars and one truck had fallen into holes and cracks
caused by the landslide, Swedish news agency TT reported.
A rescue services spokesperson told public broadcaster SVT all
people in the vehicles had been helped out.
Police said on their website they had launched a probe into
whether work at a nearby construction site may have caused the
slide.
"It's still unclear if there is any connection to blasting/work
at the site and the landslide," they said. "No person is
currently suspected of a crime."
The rescue services said specially trained staff and search dogs
would now search the area, and that further slides could not be
ruled out.
(Reporting by Anna RingstromEditing by Peter Graff)
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