A large chunk of a motorway in southwest Sweden collapsed overnight, causing three people to be taken to hospital with light injuries, police said on Saturday.
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 slide affected around ten vehicles, a wooded area, a business area with a gas station and a fast food restaurant, the rescue services said. Several cars and one truck had fallen into holes and cracks caused by the landslide, Swedish news agency TT reported. Police said on their website they had launched a probe into whether work at a nearby construction site may have caused the slide.
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