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Although no three missing people have been found so far, authorities say they are now considered dead. The official death toll has risen to 10, although only the bodies of seven have been found so far.
Police Rasa Lasinskienė, a 49-year-old Lithuanian citizen, is also mentioned in the list of missing persons previously published by the police.
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“We no longer expect to find living people under the landslide,” Ida Melbo Oystese, police commissioner for the eastern district of Norway, told a news conference on Tuesday.
“Ten people have lost their lives, three are still missing,” he said.
“We went through all the places where you could imagine that someone had survived. We did everything we could ”, highlighted I. Melbo Oystese.
While there is no hope of finding survivors, rescuers continue to search for the bodies of missing people.
The bodies of seven people previously found, including a two-year-old girl, her father and a pregnant mother, were found in a mix of building ruins, dirt and snow.
On Tuesday, rescuers had to interrupt the search for a short time after the layer of soil moved again, although no one was injured.
Reuters / Scanpix photo / A landslide buried a dozen houses
10 people were also injured in the disaster, more than a thousand were evacuated, but some have already returned to their homes.
Rescue teams continued their 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.
Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, who visited Aske last Wednesday, said the landslide was “one of the largest” in the country’s history.
Locals lit candles near the scene of the tragedy.
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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