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In the village of Alko, where several houses were buried by a landslide on December 30, three people have yet to be found, including a Lithuanian.
Seven people died.
“The search has entered a new phase, and the police now spend most of their time developing a plan on how to proceed,” police said in a statement.
Rescuers found a surviving puppy in the rubble Monday night, in good condition. The find raised hope that three missing people could be found alive.
On Tuesday, shortly before noon, a new minor landslide forced rescuers to leave the scene of the incident and await further instructions from the geologist.
Until now, rescue teams have continued to search for the missing after the December 30 morning tragedy in the town of Asko, about 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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