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Agence France-Presse

Rescuers have uncovered a fifth body four days after a landslide buried homes near Norway’s capital, police said on Sunday, as the search goes on for five people still missing.
The tragedy occurred in the early hours of Wednesday when houses were destroyed and shifted hundreds of metres under a torrent of mud at the village of Ask, 25km northeast of Oslo.
“Just before six am a deceased person was found,” a police statement said.

The discovery of a fourth body had been made on Saturday after three were recovered the day before at the bleak, snow-covered scene at Ask, in Gjerdrum municipality.
Police on Saturday identified the body of the first person found on Friday as 31-year-old Eirik Grønolen.
The identities of the four other dead have not been released.
But police on Friday published a list of the names of all the eight adults, a two-year-old and a 13-year-old child who went missing on Wednesday.
Ten people were also injured in the landslide, including one seriously who was transferred to Oslo for treatment.

About a thousand people have been evacuated out of a local population of 5,000, because of fears for the safety of their homes as the land continues to move.
Search and rescue teams have been using sniffer dogs, helicopters and drones in a bid to find survivors.
The search teams were also digging channels in the ground to evacuate casualties.
Experts say the disaster was a “quick clay slide” of around 300 by 800 metres.
Quick clay is found in Norway and Sweden and notorious for collapsing after turning to fluid when overstressed.
Prime Minister Erna Solberg described it as one of the biggest landslides the country had ever experienced.
The royal court said in a statement that King Harald, his wife Sonja and Crown Prince Haakon were to visit the disaster area later Sunday morning.


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Fifth body found after landslide in Norway as rescuers search for five missing people

Rescue crews work in the area at Ask in Gjerdrum, Norway, on Saturday. Photo: NTB via AP

Rescue crews work in the area at Ask in Gjerdrum, Saturday Jan. 2, 2021, after a massive landslide smashed into a residential area near the Norwegian capital on Wednesday. The landslide cut across a road through Ask, leaving a deep ravine that cars could not pass. (Tor Erik Schroeder/NTB via AP)

Candle burns for the victims of the deadly landslide that hit a residential area several days ago in Ask, Gjerdrum, Norway January 2, 2021. NTB/Haakon Mosvold Larsen via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NORWAY OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN NORWAY.

One dead in Norway landslide as rescuers search for nine missing people, including a toddler

A view of the damage as emergency services work during a rescue operation two days after a landslide occurred in Ask, Gjerdrum municipality in Norway on Friday. Photo: NTB via Reuters

epa08914721 Candles are placed at the outer edge of the landslide in Ask in Gjerdrum municipality, Norway, 01 January 2021. Several homes have been taken by the avalanche and nine people remain missing after one body was found. More than 1,000 people in the area have been evacuated. EPA-EFE/Jil Yngland NORWAY OUT

Norway deploys drones, dogs to search for 10 missing after landslide

The landslide struck homes in the village Ask, some 40km north of Oslo, Norway. Photo: EPA

This aerial picture provided by the Norwegian Rescue Service shows the damage after a landslide occurred in a residential area in Ask, near Oslo, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. Several houses have been destroyed, up to 200 people have been evacuated and nine injured in Norway in a landslide at a residential area near the capital Oslo. Norwegian police were alarmed around 4 am Wednesday that a landslide had occured in the village of Ask in the municipality of Gjerdrum, some thirty kilometers (12 miles) north of Oslo. (Norwegian Rescue Service/NTB via AP)

epa08911841 A person is lowered from a rescue helicopter near the site where a big landlide hit a residential area in the village Ask, some 40 kilometers north of Oslo, Norway, 30 December 2020. According to the police, several people are still missing after the landslide. EPA-EFE/JIL YNGLAND NORWAY OUT

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An aerial view of the Tochal mountain near Tehran, Iran on Sunday following an avalanche. Photo: EPA-EFE

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Ground search teams were aided by helicopters and drones with heat-detecting cameras amid harsh winter conditions near the village of Ask
At least nine buildings with more than 30 flats were destroyed by the landslide



The landslide is the worst in modern Norwegian history and has sent shock waves through citizens in the Nordic nation.


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