HELSINKI (AP) – Rescue teams searching for survivors four days after a landslide in a Norwegian village found no signs of life on Saturday amid dilapidated buildings and debris. Three bodies have been exhumed but investigators are still searching for seven more people believed to be missing. The landslide in …
Read More »Houses buried in mud by Norway landslides; 12 people are still missing
A massive landslide destroyed homes overnight in a village in Norway, near the capital Oslo, leaving 12 people unconscious and 10 injured, police and local media said Wednesday. Video footage from the scene showed an entire mountain in Ask, 15 miles northeast of the capital, in the municipality of Gijerdrum. …
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OSLO (AP) – David Beasley, head of the UN World Food Program, told the Associated Press that his organization had become speechless by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize. “I think this is the first time in my life that I have been without words. I was just shocked and amazed, …
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