Gjerdrum was the scene in the early hours of 30 December d ‘a devastating landslide that washed away nine buildings – JARAN WASRUD / NTB / NORWEGIAN WATER RESOURCES AND ENERGY DIRECTORATE NVE / AFP
Five days by a landslide which killed seven dead and three missing, Norwegian emergency services still hope to find survivors in Gjerdrum, a municipality of nearly 7. inhabitants at 20 kilometers north-east from Oslo . “We are still in a rescue operation, which means that we believe that we can still find survivors,” Rescue manager Roger Pettersen said during a press briefing.
The 190 December, a devastating landslide swept away nine buildings including around thirty dwellings. In a tangle of debris, dirt and snow, relief workers have since found the bodies of seven of the ten missing, including that of a two-year-old girl. “The cold is of course playing against us,” admitted the head of the medical teams, Halvard Stave, during the press briefing on Monday.