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

  • 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

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

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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.

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