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A 50-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man were killed in an avalanche on the Arctic island of Jan Mayen on Saturday.
The Nordland police district writes in a press release Saturday night.
Police were notified of the landslide at 4:50 p.m., via the North Norway Main Rescue Center.
– Three people were traveling in the area when the landslide occurred. They were colleagues, but had free time and were training for an expedition, operations manager Remi Johansen tells VG.
Two of the people were captured by the avalanche, while the third managed to break free and was notified. He must be unharmed, according to police.
Rescue teams from the Jan Mayen Armed Forces base were immediately dispatched to search, and shortly after the search teams arrived, at around 5:20 pm, two people were found who had died. Family members have been notified.
JAN MAYEN: The Armed Forces have their own station on Jan Mayen, and four meteorologists are also stationed on the island. Photo: Stian Lysberg Solum, NTB
Operations manager Johansen tells VG that most of the people on the island work in the Armed Forces or as meteorologists.
– There is a small group of people who work there for six months in a row. These deaths are something that affects all of Jan Mayen now, he tells VG.
The Armed Forces have their own station in Jan Mayen with 14 employees, in addition, four meteorologists are stationed there, NTB writes.
The island is located in the Norwegian Sea, about 1000 kilometers west of Norway, north of Iceland towards the Greenland Sea. Jan Mayen covers almost 380 square kilometers and has been in Norway since 1930.
