The police confirmed this in a press release on Saturday night.
The emergency services were notified of the accident at 10.45pm on Friday evening.
NTB reports on Saturday morning that next of kin have been notified.
The accident happened on national highway 5 in Florø in Kinn municipality. Two cars with a total of five people were involved.
In one car sat a man in his 50s and a woman in her 40s. They have both been transported to the hospital in Førde by ambulance and air ambulance. They are described as slightly injured.
The other car caught fire after the collision.
– The car that was on fire was burnt out, and in the burnt out car there were three people, all three of whom have been confirmed dead, says police prosecutor Ole Vallestad Emmerhoff in the West police district.
An air ambulance was sent to the scene of the accident on Friday evening.
Photo: Firdaposten
The road is still closed after the accident, and will be closed throughout the morning on Saturday.
Emmerhoff states that the National Road Administration’s accident team has been notified, and will carry out investigations at the scene of the accident on Saturday.
– The police will also carry out their own forensic investigations. An investigation into the incident is ongoing, and the sequence of events is not fully clear to the police at this time, he says.
2023-09-16 07:11:10
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