MFA: The body of a missing Lithuanian may have been found at the site of the landslide in Norway

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

“According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the body of a missing Lithuanian citizen could have been found this morning,” the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) reported on the fact in a comment sent to BNS.

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.

Police say they have informed the victim’s family that the body is currently being removed.

In early February it was announced that the remains of a total of nine people had already been found dead. Still another death was sought.

In the town of Asko, about 25 km northeast of Oslo, a muddy landslide on the morning of December 30 buried a row of houses.

In a settlement in the Jerdrum municipality with a population of 5,000, the landslide destroyed at least nine buildings with more than 30 apartments. Some of the buildings hung on the edge of a basin 300 meters wide and 700 meters long.

The exact cause of the tragedy is not yet known, but experts say floating clay, heavy rains and wet winter weather may have contributed to the formation of the landslide.