Glacial flood floods road and damages bridge in southern Iceland

Glacial flood floods road and damages bridge in southern Iceland

Kyiv  •  UNN

 • 20963 views

A large-scale glacial flood has occurred in southern Iceland, flooding the ring road and partially destroying a bridge. The weather service reports an extremely large scale of the flood, but there are no casualties.

Glacial flooding in southern Iceland has flooded the ring road. This was reported by Reuters, according to UNN.

Details

In southern Iceland, a glacial flood flooded a ring road on Saturday, causing part of the bridge to collapse. The Icelandic Meteorological Service reported that one of the ends of the bridge was damaged and torn.

It is clear that this is an extremely large flood

- the Meteorological Service noted. 

Fortunately, there are no reports of injuries.

Iceland will allocate an additional 667 thousand euros to support the Ukrainian energy sectorJun 4 2024, 02:33 PM • 21678 views