British tourists hurt as horses stampede

Four Britons were today in intensive care after a horse stampede at a Norwegian beauty spot.

They were in a 50-strong tour group in horse-drawn carriages, and were thrown to the ground when the horses overturned the carts.

A Foreign Office spokeswoman said six Britons were airlifted to hospital and nine were treated at the scene near Stryn, western Norway.

Four of the injured, said to be two women in their late seventies and a married couple in their fifties, were at the Alesund Hospital. Doctors there said none of their injuries was life-threatening.

The accident happened as the British group were travelling in 17 carriages along a narrow mountain road on their way back from the Briksdal glacier.