British cruise tourists hurt in glacier ice fall

Seventeen British people were injured when ice falling from a glacier hit their luxury sightseeing boat in the Arctic.

Seventeen British people were injured when ice falling from a glacier hit their luxury sightseeing boat in the Arctic.

Three of those injured off the Svalbard Islands 300 miles north of Norway were flown to hospital on the Norwegian mainland at Tromso, including two with serious but non-life threatening injuries.

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