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Firefighters put out the fire at the accident site in northern Norway
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Five people died in a night fire in a hut in Norway.
As the police announced, the emergency services also found the last two of five people who were initially missing on Sunday afternoon.
After the fire in a remote community in the far north of the Scandinavian country, a total of five people were considered missing, including four minors under the age of 16.
The police had already expressed concern on Saturday that they had not escaped the flames.
The cause of the fire remains unclear
"It is with a heavy heart that we now discover that this fire has claimed five lives," the investigators wrote in a message.
"The police are relieved that we were able to find the missing people, but this is a difficult day for those affected and the local community."
A man was able to escape from the burning hut in Andøy municipality on the Vesterålen archipelago early Saturday morning.
According to media reports, however, he had to walk barefoot for several kilometers before he could reach people who dialed the emergency number.
The cause of the fire is still unclear.
But everything indicates that it was a tragic accident, said the local police chief Per Erik Hagen.
There is no reason to assume anything else, the police confirmed on Sunday.
Vesterålen is right next to the Lofoten in the far north of Norway.
The six people who were in the hut all came from the municipality of Vågan in the extremely sparsely populated Lofoten in the province of Nordland.
Only about 24,000 people live on the 80 islands.
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