COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A glacial flood in southern Iceland inundated a hoop highway on Saturday, inflicting a bit at one finish of the close by bridge to offer means and tear aside, the nation’s meteorological workplace mentioned in an announcement.
“It is clear that it is an unusually large flood,” the Met Workplace mentioned. There have been no studies of accidents.
Aerial footage from the nation’s coast guard on public broadcaster RUV confirmed an enormous flat space of uninhabited land coated by muddy water, whereas one other video confirmed a torrent speeding beneath the bridge on the freeway.
The highway stretching from the coastal city of Vik south of the Myrdalsjokull glacier to the city of Kirkjubaejarklaustur, some 70 kilometres (43.5 miles) additional east, was closed as a result of flood, in response to the Icelandic Highway Administration’s web site.
It was not but clear when the flood would attain its peak, the Met Workplace mentioned.
