A rescue helicopter flies over the landslide site.
Photographer: Terje Bendiksby / AFP / Getty Images
Photographer: Terje Bendiksby / AFP / Getty Images
Norwegian rescuers have now recovered six bodies in a town hit by a landslide on Wednesday, not far from the country’s capital, with four more people missing.
The latest two discoveries were made Sunday in the wreckage of buildings in the same area as previous finds, Goran Syversen, head of the firefighting operation, told reporters. Rescuers worked through the night and are still searching for survivors, he said.
The fast clay slide took place about 20 kilometers north of Oslo and follows a month of rainfall in the capital. About 1,000 people were evacuated from the area after the landslide devastated large parts of the town.
It is known that such landslides occur in Norway and neighboring Sweden when the rapid clay found in some parts of Scandinavia becomes full of rainwater and becomes liquid, according to the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute. Several houses were exported to the sea due to a similar slide in June. No one was injured in that case.