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It was Victoria Emilie Næristorp-Sørengen (13) and her mother, Ann-Mari Olsen-Næristorp (50), who were found dead in the area of the landslide on Tuesday in Ask.
This is stated in a press release, after the deceased have been identified in the Department of Forensic Medicine.
– The relatives have been notified, the Eastern police district also reports.
I tried to escape
The two were sleeping in Nystulia’s home when the landslide occurred on the night of December 30. The whole family, which also includes Odd Steinar Sørengen (48), tried to leave.
Sørengen has told Romerikes Blad that he couldn’t do this, but he saw his daughter and her partner disappear through the door.
To the same newspaper, Odd Steinar Sørengen says it was with mixed feelings that it was confirmed that it was his partner and daughter who were found in the area of the landslide on Tuesday.
– It’s both relief and despair. Relief at having found them, but at the same time a desperation to be dead. They haven’t killed me so far, he tells Romerikes Blad.
Mother and daughter, along with Rasa Lasinskiene (49), have been the last to disappear after the landslide; the other seven were found on January 3.
The family’s small dog was found alive on January 4, six days after the landslide. But Victoria and Ann-Mari were not found until now.
– In and around school, there are particularly heavy and emotional thoughts about what happened to Victoria, Principal Stine Thorstensen at Gjerdrum ungdomsskole told Dagbladet on January 4, when it was clear that the 13-year-old’s desk years would be empty when the school reopened after the new year.
Fighting the clock
Very demanding
The two dead were found at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m., respectively, on Tuesday, in an area of the landslide where search teams have been concentrating lately. At a press conference on the brink of avalanche that night, the task force drew the picture of a very demanding job in minus ten degrees.
– It’s alternately TV and liquid soup, Fire Service Operations Manager Gøran Syversen told Dagbladet.
Crews use, among other things, an NVE excavator and dogs on the job. The dead were found at a depth of two meters, police chief Mari Stoltenberg said.
He further said that the police had been in close dialogue with the missing relatives after the discovery.
– We have been here with one objective in mind, which is to make discoveries and to be able to give some answers to the relatives. It is a nice message to be able to transmit from the pit, of course. Of course, it’s also motivating for future work, Stoltenberg said.
Odd is back home: – Strange and brutal
Grateful and relieved
Gjerdrum Mayor Anders Østensen (Labor Party) said he received the message about the discovery with mixed feelings.
– But I am grateful and relieved by the findings. We have long been aware of the harsh reality of this and that the discoveries would not lead to anyone being found alive, he said.
Østensen also painted the picture that normality is slowly but surely returning to the badly affected Romerike village; Last Wednesday, around 600 residents were able to return to their homes in Ask, after being evacuated for more than a month.
The task force continues its search for Rasa Lasinskiene, they said Tuesday.
