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Swedes join Norway rescue in landslide village
Swedish rescuers and Norwegian dog handlers are preparing a risky ground search for 10 people missing after a hillside collapsed in Norway.
It is snowing heavily in Ask, a village 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo, where homes toppled into a giant chasm caused by flowing mud.
Police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two house in the chasm appear safe for rescuers to potentially enter.
Helicopters have been searching the scene of Wednesday s landslide.
A missing dog was rescued on Thursday.
In Friday s operation the eight Swedish rescuers and their Norwegian colleagues plan to use an army vehicle called a paver , which has a giant steel bridge on which rescuers can move, Norway s Aftenposten daily reports.
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A body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway.
Initially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask.
Helicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene.
But on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.
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Norway landslide buries homes, 10 people missing
‘DRAMATIC EXPERIENCE’: Some houses had been left teetering on the edge of a crater left behind by the landslide, with a few falling over the edge the following day
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Rescue workers yesterday were still searching for survivors of a major landslide on Tuesday night that destroyed homes in a village in Norway close to the capital Oslo, leaving at least 10 people unaccounted for and 10 injured, officials said.
Video footage from the scene showed a whole hillside had collapsed in Ask, 25km northeast of the capital. Homes were left crushed and buried in dark mud.