[ad_1]
About 700 people have been evacuated for fear of possible new landslides.
The landslide was reported to the police at 4 am in the town of Asko in the Jerdrum municipality, about 20 km northeast of the capital. local (and Lithuanian) time.
VIDEO: The chasm that opened in the middle of the road also closed the house: hundreds of residents had to be evacuated after the landslide.
As the landslide slid down, at the place of the road that passed through the town there was a deep shaft through which cars could not pass. The released footage saw dramatic footage of a house sliding into an open well.
The published photos show that at least eight houses have been demolished.
The Lithuanian also disappeared
Police spokesman Roger Pettersen told Norwegian media that there were no reports of missing persons, but authorities cannot rule out the presence of people in the collapsed house during the disaster. According to him, there is currently no data on the whereabouts of 21 people registered in the area.
“Those 21 people may have been evacuated, but these people may still be in the disaster area,” Pettersen told the NTB news agency.
The family’s address to the community regarding the missing Lithuanian was posted on Facebook in the newspaper account “Valstybės žinios”.
Rasa Lasinskienė
In the petition it is written that after the landslide in the municipality of Gjerdrum in the city of Asko, the Lithuanian Rasa Lasinskienė disappeared. She left the house that night to seduce the puppy and disappeared: she was no longer answering phone calls, the phone was turned off.
One of the injured sustained serious injuries, the other nine were easily injured. During the disaster, weather conditions in the area were harsh, snowy and cold.
About 5,000 people live in Aske. people.
“It is painful to see how the forces of nature have destroyed Jerdrum. My thoughts are with all those affected by this landslide. Now it is important that the rescue services do their job,” Prime Minister Erna Solberg wrote on Twitter.
In another statement, the prime minister noted that “this is probably one of the largest landslides in Norway, with the most serious consequences.”
In the area where Asc is found, there are abundant stocks of floating clay, which under certain conditions can convert from a solid material to a semi-liquid mass.
Landslides have been there before.
[ad_2]
