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GJERDRUM (VG) After one person’s death was confirmed in the area of the landslide on Friday, rescue teams are still working to find survivors.
Task leader Roy Alkvist confirms that a dead person was found in the area of the landslide on Friday.
Police will not provide further information on gender or age at this time and are working to notify family members.
– This is very new, says Alkvist.
– Many people are affected by the tragedy. There are people who have lost their homes and everything they own continues.
The deceased was found in the landslide area around 2:30 p.m., police said in a press release.
At 4 p.m., Operations Manager Roger Pettersen reports that the deceased has yet to be identified and that the person in question is now being transported out of the area of the landslide.
Search and rescue work will continue in full force for the remainder of the afternoon and evening.
– We have to work hard and intensely to find survivors. Darkness has come, but it doesn’t significantly prevent us from implementing the plans we have for the rest of the afternoon and evening, said operations manager Pettersen.
– We have planned that we can get more finds of survivors, but we are also prepared for finds of the dead.
Nine people are still missing and there will be women, men and children among them.
Still waiting to find survivors
The discovery comes shortly after teams entered the Styrofoam plates in the landslide area on Friday and searched a dog in two buildings.
Police say they are still looking for survivors. Work will continue throughout the day.
– There are still people who miss their loved ones, emphasizes Alkvist.
The health service can now receive potential survivors, staffing and mobilizing. They also allow hospitals to receive.
– We have great faith in finding survivors, says Health Operations Manager Bjørn Nuland.
– We have that until we get other medical evaluations or you’ve searched the area of the landslide so well, he says.
If they find people, the health team will help evacuate them and ensure optimal medical treatment in the hospital.
Gjerdrum Mayor Anders Østensen also hopes that survivors will be found in the search.
See the latest news about the avalanche at VG news studio.
On Friday morning, rescue teams began searching the area of the landslide. The air ambulance has been over the avalanche area for the last hour.
– In addition to the USTR crew from Norway and Sweden, nurses, geologists and police are participating in the operation, task force leader Roy Alkvist said at a press conference Friday morning.
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This has happened
At 03.59 pm on Wednesday 30.12, the police received the first report of the landslide.
The landslide was south of central Ask, on the left side of National Highway 120. The landslide area is estimated to be around 300 meters wide and 700 meters long.
A total of nine buildings with a total of 31 homes were taken over by the landslide, in addition to six garage houses with five parking spaces each.
The cause of the landslide has yet to be determined.
There is a lot of fast clay in the area and it is basically solid. If the clay is overloaded, the structure can collapse and the clay particles float in the released water. The result will be a rapid clay landslide, ”the Norwegian Directorate for Water Resources and Energy (NVE) previously noted.
