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Ten still missing after Norway mudslide buries homes
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31/12/2020 - 10:56 2 min
Oslo (AFP)
Rescue workers were still searching on Thursday for survivors from a landslide that destroyed homes in a Norwegian village close to Oslo leaving 10 people unaccounted for, including two children, and 10 injured.
Work continued overnight after a whole hillside collapsed in Ask, 25 kilometres (15 miles) northeast of the capital.
Homes were buried under mud and some houses were left teetering on the edge of a crater caused by the slide, with several falling over the edge as the day went on. It is important for me to stress that we are looking for survivors, chief of operations Roger Pettersen told reporters.
Drones, dogs deployed as Norwegian rescuers hunt for 10 people missing after landslide
Norwegian rescuers deployed drones and dogs to negotiate unstable clay soil in a search for 10 people still missing on Thursday after a landslide in southern Norway swept away more than a dozen buildings the previous day.
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Posted: Dec 31, 2020 6:03 AM ET | Last Updated: December 31, 2020
A police helicopter is seen next to a destroyed house in a crater left behind by a landslide in the town of Ask in Norway on Thursday.(Fredrik Hagen/NTB/AFP/Getty Images)
Norwegian rescuers deployed drones and dogs to negotiate unstable clay soil in a search for 10 people still missing on Thursday after a landslide in southern Norway swept away more than a dozen buildings the previous day.
General view after a landslide hit a residential area in Ask village, about 40km north of Oslo, Norway December 30, 2020. Fredrik Hagen/NTB/via REUTERS
Stockholm, Dec. 30. 2020 Twenty-one people remain unaccounted for after a large landslide hit the village of Ask in southern Norway, police said on Wednesday.
The 21 unaccounted for are all thought to be local residents, Roger Pettersen, head of the police operation, told reporters.
“These could be people who are away visiting others, in the mountains.
“There may be people who have evacuated.
“But there may also be people who are inside the landslide area,” he said.
The landslide hit Ask, a village of about 5,000 people around 40 kilometres north-west of Oslo, early in the morning.