Rescue services say 11 people have been found dead after a helicopter crashed near the city of Bergen in Norway.
It was carrying 13 people from an offshore oil field site in the North Sea, and crashed on an island off the coast.The helicopter was carrying 13 people from an offshore oil field site in the North Sea, and crashed on an island off the coast.
A police spokesman said the helicopter "has crashed, it is totally smashed".
Morten Kronen, of the region's police force, said: "We have not found any survivors. We are still looking.
"We are searching a large ocean area."
An eyewitness told a Norwegian newspaper that the helicopter's "rotor blades came rushing towards us ... then we heard a violent explosion".
Statoil, the energy company that owns the Gullfaks B platform that the helicopter was on its way back from, says it has temporarily grounded all helicopters of the type that crashed.
Norway's Prime Minister has said on Twitter that the news is "horrible".
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