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Fourth body found at site of Norway landslide, six missing
Flattened homes lie covered in snow as rescue crews work with a dog in the landslide area at Ask, Gjerdrum, Jany 2, 2021.PHOTO: REUTERS
PublishedJan 2, 2021, 11:27 pm SGT
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Fourth body found in Norway landslide, six missing
The authorities have banned all aircraft from the disaster area until 3 pm Monday as they conduct aerial searches.
January 3, 2021 07:36 GMT
Rescue workers on Saturday recovered a fourth body and continued searching for another six people still missing days after a landslide buried homes near Norway s capital, authorities said.
King Harald was due Sunday to visit the village of Ask, 25 kilometres (15 miles) northeast of Oslo, where an intense search and rescue operation has been underway since disaster struck in the early hours of Wednesday morning. We have made a new discovery of a dead person. It s in the same area as the third body, police official Knut Hammer told a news conference on a day that three bodies were found at the bleak, snow-covered scene at Ask, in Gjerdrum municipality.
Rescue workers on Saturday recovered a fourth body and continued searching for another six people still missing days after a landslide buried homes near Norway's capital, authorities said.
Rescue workers have recovered a fourth body and are continuing to search for another six people still missing four days after a landslide buried homes in a Norwegian village.
“We have made a new discovery of a dead person. It’s in the same area as the third body,” police official Knut Hammer told a news conference on a day that three bodies were found at the bleak, snow-covered scene at Ask, in Gjerdrum municipality.
A whole hillside collapsed in the village of Ask, 25km (15 miles) northeast of the capital Oslo, in the early hours of Wednesday morning, injuring 10 people, one of them seriously.