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Specially trained Swedish rescue teams from the so-called Nusar team entered the risk zone on Thursday along with Norwegian dog patrols to search some houses in the clay crater.
A few hours later, Operations Director Roy Alkvist announced to police that a body had been found. The police have not disclosed the sex or age of the victim because the relatives have not been notified.
– We will continue working tirelessly in the search, Alkvist said at a press conference.
The body was found when one of the houses in the crater was searched.
Nine people are still missing, but there are still ten names on the police list. Three men, five women and two girls. Several people belong to the same families.
It is unknown who of them was found on Friday.
King Charles XVI Gustav and Queen Silvia have expressed their condolences to King Harald of Norway.
“Our thoughts are with the affected families and the Norwegian people,” they write in a telegram.
Still at risk of landslides
Authorities are prepared to be able to evacuate more areas in the vicinity of the landslide. Drilling and other investigations are carried out all the time in both evacuated and still inhabited areas. During New Year’s Eve, new landslides occurred in the great pit, which measures about 700 times 400 meters.
Then a nursing home had to be evacuated. Fortunately, it was possible to find empty hospital rooms near Oslo, and our own staff were able to track it. The fact that some are infected by corona could also be handled, rescue management said at an earlier press conference.
Warned for construction
According to hydrologist Steinar Myrabø, he warned the municipality in 2008 when the area would begin construction. Then he was chief engineer at Jernbaneverket.
It was then a watercourse that was flooded and caused erosion. Myrabø later said, according to Norwegian media, that it was due to expansions in the vicinity and said the municipality needed to stop construction and review surface water management.
– No one knows what caused the landslide this week, but I know that the municipality did not follow the warning then, says Steinar Myrabø.
The area where the landslide occurred was classified as a high-risk area, a five on a five-point scale, when the municipality gave the green light for expansion in 2005.
The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute NGI requires careful soil investigations in such cases, and builder Odd Sæther tells NRK that they have followed NGI’s guidelines.
– Once the emergency phase is over, it is relevant to evaluate the reasons why this happened. So it is natural to think that erosion in the stream is one of the things to assess, says NGI engineer Guro Grøneng on Norwegian radio.
Amery von Schoultz / TT
Filip Norman / TT
The alarm for the landslide reached the police at 3:59 p.m. on Wednesday, December 30.
At least 14 addresses in a residential area were affected by the landslide, which is located in Ask in the Gjerdrum municipality, south of Oslo’s Gardermoen Airport.
One person has been found dead in the avalanche.
Ten people have been reported injured, one of them seriously.
Nine people are still missing on Friday.
About 1,000 people have been evacuated from the area.
Helicopters are involved in search work and use, for example, heat search technology, and attempts have been made to locate lost mobile phones.
The Armed Forces, the National Guard, the Civil Defense and voluntary organizations participate in the work. The Greater Gothenburg Rescue Service has sent nine people there.
Several buildings with more than 30 houses have collapsed, as well as several garages.
Source: NTB
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