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Rescue teams recovered a fourth body as they continue to search for another six people who remain missing days after a landslide buried houses near the Norwegian capital, authorities said.
An intense search and rescue operation has been carried out in the snow-covered town of Ask, 25 kilometers northeast of Oslo, since the disaster struck in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
“We have made a new discovery of a dead person. It is in the same area as the third body,” said police officer Knut Hammer at a news conference.
Police identified the body of the first person, which they found yesterday, saying it was Eirik Grønolen, 31.
They also published a list of the names of 10 people whose whereabouts are unknown: eight adults, a two-year-old boy and a 13-year-old boy.
Police have also said that 10 other people were injured in the landslide, including one seriously who was flown to Oslo for treatment shortly after the disaster.
When an entire hillside collapsed, houses were buried under the mud, others were split in two and some houses were left reeling over a crater caused by the landslide, with several subsequently falling over the edge.
The landslide destroyed several houses and displaced another hundreds of meters.
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