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To date, the bodies of seven deceased people have been found at the disaster site.
A dog found at a site where rescuers were working Monday night is in “good condition,” said police spokesman Ivar Myrboe.
“It is a great joy for us to motivate ourselves to continue our hard work,” said rescuer Goeran Syversen.
Rescue teams continue to search for the missing after the December 30 morning tragedy in the town of Asko, some 25 km northeast of Oslo. When the air temperature dropped below freezing, dog rescue teams searched the rubble for the missing and helicopters and drones with thermal imaging cameras flew over the crash site.
In a settlement of 5,000 people, a landslide of at least nine buildings with more than 30 apartments is considered 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, high rainfall and humid winter weather may have contributed to the formation of the landslide.
In 2005, Norwegian officials warned against building residential houses in an area classified as a “high risk area” for landslides, but later buildings still appeared.
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