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Less than two days before the New Year, huge amounts of land cut through a snowy village in southern Norway. Emergency services have been searching for missing people ever since. Now there is a sad first find.
Two and a half days after a major landslide in southern Norway, rescue teams found a first fatality. Police Chief Roy Alkvist announced Friday afternoon at a press conference. Police initially declined to comment on the person’s age and gender.
The landslide occurred early Wednesday morning in Ask in the municipality of Gjerdrum, about 40 kilometers northeast of Oslo. The helicopter shots show the extent of the crater. (You can see the images in the video above or here). At least ten people were injured. Nine houses collapsed as a result of the exit, others on the rim of the resulting crater were at great risk of collapse. About 1,000 people have been saved so far. Ten people were missing before the death was announced, including children.
Winter weather makes it difficult to find more missing people
In addition to Norway’s winter weather, the search for the missing people was made more difficult by the occurrence of the subway: for a long time, parts of the disaster area were so unstable that it was too dangerous to walk into them. Only on Friday could emergency services be dispatched to the red zone in the disaster area. Previously, survivors were searched with helicopters and drones from the air.
Norway was hit by a similar landslide in the summer. At that time, the exit near Alta in the far north of the country dumped several houses and shacks into the sea. People were not injured. As it was then, the nature of the soil is now expected to have something to do with the landslide. The exact reason for Ask’s exit is unclear so far.
