The boat owner who both the rescue service and the police searched for in the skerries outside Kragerø on Sunday night, has reported, the police say. Four people are injured, two of them seriously, but not life-threateningly injured, after a collision between two boats outside Kragerø on Sunday night, according to the police. The main rescue center launched an action after the report, which they only received at 1.11. – A boat has come ashore in Kragerø. It had eight people on board, who are looked after by ambulance personnel. We do not have information about the other boat now, says on-duty rescue leader Oddgeir Andersen at the Main Rescue Center Southern Norway to NTB. He adds that they have no information that the boat has sunk. The police state that there are four injured in the boat who got to Kragerø. The southeastern police district states that there were five people in the boat who came ashore. Boat number two continued after the collision. At 2.20, the police stated that the other boat had reported. It drove into a marina not far from the accident site and there should be no injuries on board. – That is the information we have now. We’ll check this out. But the search has ended on our part, says operations manager Ottar Steinstø in the Southeast police district to NTB. The main rescue center put the air ambulance in search and a rescue helicopter from Rygge participated in the search for the other boat. In addition, both the lifeboat and a coastguard vessel contributed.
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