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Norwegian authorities are trying to locate the 12 people missing after the massive landslide. Among the missing are children, police said.
The rescue operation became increasingly difficult due to the snow.
The rescue team coordinator, Roger Pettersen, is trying to locate the missing with the help of a device that captures the waves emitted by the mobile phones of the missing. He urged relatives to trust the authorities and not call these mobiles so as not to consume their battery, according to norwaytoday.info.
The landslide occurred in a residential area of Gjerdrum, about 30 kilometers north of the capital, Oslo. In the photos taken at the site, you can see a large crater, with buildings destroyed at the base and others hanging on its edges.
So far, about 700 people have been evacuated from the area, police said.
The disappeared lived in houses in the center of the area where the landslide occurred, but at the moment it is not known if they were trapped under the rubble, had left when the disaster occurred or managed to escape, police said.
“Buildings and structures have collapsed. We have received messages from desperate people calling the police emergency number … There are dramatic reports and the incident is extremely serious,” said Roger Pettersen.
A Swedish crisis team was dispatched to Gjerdrum to help search for missing persons in the area, Aftonbladet reports.
Publisher: Georgiana Marina
