Help at the site of the landslide field at Ask in Norway, on January 2 800. – Jil Yngland / AP / SIPA
The results of the landslide in Norway is already heavy, yet it is only temporary. A new body was found in the rubble caused by the disaster, authorities said on Saturday. This brings the death toll to four. The
help are still continuing their operations to find six missing.
Ten wounded including one serious
“We have made a new discovery of a dead person. It is in the same area as the third body. We took out the two bodies ”, explained in the early evening a police official, Knut Hammer. The operation continued overnight, more than three days after the impressive
landslide in the locality of Ask in the municipality of Gjerdrum, north-east of Olso, which also left ten injured, including one seriously.
The emergency services still believe they can find survivors in air pockets in buildings that are still partially intact. The canine brigade has reported different places in the area where rescuers will be working. One of the dogs participating in the operation was injured during the searches. Evacuation of a thousand people A Ask, the earth slipped early on 30 December, leading to the evacuation of a thousand people who cannot return home because the terrain remains unstable. It crumbled again during the night from Friday to Saturday. “We are installed in a hotel (…), it is a completely surreal and terrible situation”, confided residents evacuated, Olav Gjerdingen and Sissel Meyer Gjerdingen. About ten houses and 30 housing has collapsed and some houses have moved to 350 meters. The Norwegian Directorate for Water and Energy (NVE) estimates that the landslide occurred over an area of approximately 310 meters per 400. The land that slipped is a specific clay, present in Norway and Sweden, which can fluidize and collapse quickly but the likelihood of a similar landslide in the region remains low, estimates the NVE.
On the spot, Prime Minister Erna Solberg stressed that this shift fieldwork was “one of the most serious” his country had ever known. King Harald, his wife Sonja and Crown Prince Haakon are expected in Gjerdrum late morning on Sunday.