A rescue helicopter flies over the landslide site.
Photographer: Terje Bendiksby / AFP / Getty Images
Photographer: Terje Bendiksby / AFP / Getty Images
Norwegian rescue workers have now recovered six bodies in a village hit by a landslide on Wednesday, not far from the country’s capital, with 4 still missing.
The latest two discoveries were made on Sunday in the wrecks of buildings in the same area as previous finds, Goran Syversen, chief of the fire department, told reporters. Rescuers have been working all night and are still looking for survivors, he said.
The fast clay slide took place about 20 kilometers north of Oslo and follows a month of record rains in the capital. About 1,000 people were evacuated from the area after the landslide devastated large parts of the village.
Such landslides are known to occur in Norway and neighboring Sweden when the rapid clay found in some parts of Scandinavia fills with rainwater and liquefies, according to the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute. Several houses were knocked into the sea by a similar slide in June. Nobody was injured.