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One person was found dead in the rubble of a landslide in Norway, which brings the death toll to two, reported this Saturday the authorities, who continue their rescue operation to find eight missing.
“We are still hopeful of finding survivors,” Roy Alkvist, one of the relief officers, told reporters three days after an impressive landslide that injured 10 people in a city northeast of Oslo.
On Saturday morning, local police chief Ida Melbo Øystese said she expected to find survivors in the remaining air pockets of buildings that remain partially intact.
Police did not give details of the identity of the person found dead Friday in the rubble by a canine brigade; instead, it released a list of the names of the missing.
In Ask, in the municipality of Gjerdrum, town of 5,000 inhabitants, 25 km from the Norwegian capital, the ground sank early on December 30, prompting the evacuation of a thousand people who could not return home because of the ground, which remains unstable. The earth fell apart again during the night from Friday to Saturday.
“We are installed in a hotel (…), it is a completely surreal and terrible “said two evacuated residents, Olav Gjerdingen and Sissel Meyer Gjerdingen.
About ten houses and 31 houses collapsed and some houses moved more than 400 meters.
The Norwegian Water and Power Directorate (NVE) estimates that the landslide occurred in an area of approximately 350 by 800 meters.
Ten people were injured, one of them seriously and had to be transferred to Oslo.
Prime Minister Erna Solberg, who traveled to the scene, stressed that this landslide was “one of the largest” that her country has known.
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