The body of a missing Lithuanian man is believed to have been found in Norway after the landslide



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So far, 9 out of 10 victims have been found. The last missing person is believed to have been found on Monday: the Lithuanian R. Lasinskienė.

The victim’s relatives were reportedly informed.

Although local police have yet to confirm this, according to the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry, he may be a missing Lithuanian.

“According to the Foreign Ministry, the body of a missing Lithuanian citizen could have been found this morning,” the Foreign Ministry informed the Foreign Ministry in a comment sent to BNS.

The body of a missing Lithuanian man is believed to have been found in Norway after the landslide

Norwegian police spokesman Oystein Stavdal Paulsen told BNS that he could not yet confirm whether it was the body of 49-year-old Lithuanian citizen Rasa Lasinskienė. According to him, the remains should be sent soon for an autopsy, which should confirm both the identity of the victim and the cause of death.

According to the Norwegian police, the remains were found around seven in the ruins left by the morning landslide, in its lower part. The human body was detected by the driver of the excavator.

Portal lrt.lt Ramūnas Lasinskas, the husband of the missing Lithuanian R. Lasinskienė, confirmed that he had received bad news from the police.

According to him, the body was found 50 meters from where they indicated.

Dagbladet. Does not report that rescuers are trying to remove the body.

“Of course, it is a great tragedy, but it is also a relief that all the victims have finally been found,” said Askers Mayor Anders Østensen.

According to him, the people will now be able to turn this painful page and bury the victims properly.

The police have not yet officially confirmed the body found, an autopsy will be carried out.

The body of a missing Lithuanian man is believed to have been found in Norway after the landslide

Norwegian Rescue Services on January 5. He said he lost hope of finding survivors after the landslide, buried many houses in Asko village and killed ten people.

“We no longer expect to find people alive after the landslide,” Ida Melbo Oystese, Chief of Police for the Eastern District of Norway, told a news conference.

“We searched all the places where the survivors were likely to be found. We did everything we could,” emphasized Melbo Oystese.

The landslide spread 25 km northeast of Oslo in the town of Asko in early December 30. in the morning.

In a settlement of 5,000 people, at least nine buildings with a landslide that wiped out more than 30 apartments are believed to have claimed the most lives in modern Norwegian history. At least a thousand people were evacuated. Some of the buildings hung on the edge of a basin 300 meters wide and 700 meters long.

The exact cause of the disaster is not yet known, but a landslide has occurred at the site of a floating clay in Norway and Sweden that can transform from a solid to a semi-liquid mass. According to experts, floating clay, heavy rains and humid winter weather may have contributed to the formation of the landslide.

In 2005, Norwegian officials warned against building residential homes in an area classified as a “high risk area” for landslides, but later buildings still appeared.

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