Norwegian authorities announced on Friday that they had found a person dead two days after an impressive landslide in a town north of Oslo, and continued their rescue operation to find nine missing.
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Around 2:30 p.m., a dead man was found in the landslide
," police said in a brief statement.
She then published a list with the names of the ten missing, two children aged two and 13 and eight adults, stating that the body found had not been identified.
Supported by Swedish rescuers, the emergency services searched homes on Friday destroyed during the landslide which took place very early on December 30, and which were so far not accessible, before being interrupted by the fall of the night.
The relief operation is continuing, however, particularly with air resources.
Until Monday 3 p.m., it is forbidden to fly devices over the landslide area.
A collapsed hillside
Authorities still hope to find survivors among the debris of homes that collapsed when the earth slid.
“
I choose to listen to the police when they say that the current operation is a rescue operation and I choose to follow them when they say it's over.
We want to have hope but we can see what the site looks like
”, however declared the mayor of the city, Anders Østensen on television TV2.
Video footage shows a collapsed hillside, leaving houses crushed and buried in dark clay mud while others are sliced in half.
On Wednesday, a thousand people were evacuated from their homes after the landslide in Ask, in the municipality of Gjerdrum, a town of 5,000 inhabitants northeast of the Norwegian capital.
The evacuation zone was enlarged the next day as the terrain remains unstable.
About ten houses and 31 dwellings collapsed and some houses moved over 400 meters.
The Norwegian Water and Energy Authority (NVE) estimates the slide to be around 350 meters by 800. Ten people were injured, one of whom was seriously injured and transferred to Oslo.
On the spot, Prime Minister Erna Solberg stressed that this landslide was "
one of the biggest
" that her country has known.