Police have been told the dog, who was stuck on a mountain ledge north of Hovden, was shot overnight.

– We have been contacted by a person who says that two people shot the dog during the night. The police have failed to get in touch with the owner of the dog, and therefore do not know more about the circumstances surrounding it and whether it can be verified, explains the head of operations Ole Bjørn Kleivane in the district. Agder police station on TV 2.

At 6:54 a.m., police wrote on Twitter that the dog had been shot and the owner had also been notified that he had been shot.

On Tuesday, a rescue operation took place to bring the dog down the mountain. Police received a report of the incident at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The action eventually came to an end and police asked people to stay away from the dangerous and landslide-prone area. A fundraising campaign was set up to rescue the dog by helicopter, which in just a few hours raised over NOK 300,000.

Idar Byremo, who owns a dog himself and owns a cabin in Hovden, says Agderposten that he and a colleague decided to go to the mountain plateau at 11 p.m. to try to save the dog. Two hours later they arrived.

– We took safety harnesses and various things with us, and tied ourselves to the mountain that got stuck. Then I fucked my friend, Byremo tells the newspaper.

– It was strange, because it was exactly as if we heard that he was about to give up. It made less and less noise, and finally it stayed there. So it was completely last minute, he said.

(TV 2 / NTB)