“Rescue services are doing all they can to find people alive”, a spokesman for the Rescue Coordination Centre for Southern Norway told private broadcaster TV2.
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A helicopter with at least 13 people on board is reported to have crashed off the western coast of Norway, leading to a plume of smoke rising from the crash site.
Kronen says there were “reports of an explosion and thick smoke” and that there were people in the sea.
Morten Kronen, of the region’s police force, said: “We have not found any survivors”. Eyewitness Rebecca Andersen told the newspaper Verdens Gang that the helicopter’s “rotor blades came rushing toward us”.
“Then we heard a violent explosion”, Ms Andersen was quoted as saying.
A HELICOPTER ferrying staff to a North Sea oil platform has crashed with 14 oil workers on board.
Norwegian oil and gas company Statoil ASA said in a brief statement it had “mobilized its emergency response team” but declined further comment.
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Norway’s Prime Minister has said on Twitter that the news is “horrible”.
