11 individuals lacking after landslide strikes southern Norway, leaving giant crater

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The landslide struck a residential space within the municipality of Gjerdrum, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of the capital Oslo. Police stated greater than 900 individuals had been evacuated from the world.

Rescue staff continued to go looking the world for kids and adults who had been feared to have been caught in mud and particles, police stated.

“We’re fairly sure that there are individuals within the affected space, however we do not know if all 11 are there or if the quantity is smaller,” police spokesman Roger Pettersen informed a information convention.

“We’re nonetheless looking for survivors,” he stated.

Pictures of the location confirmed a big crater with destroyed buildings on the backside of it. Different buildings held on the perimeters of the crater, TV footage confirmed. Two extra homes collapsed into the crater on Wednesday afternoon, broadcaster NRK reported.

Norway’s King Harald stated the landslide had made a deep impression on him.

“My ideas are with all those that are affected, injured or have misplaced their houses and people who now dwell in worry and uncertainty of the total extent of the disaster,” the 83-year-old monarch stated in a press release launched by the royal palace.

Helicopters continued to hover over the world as evening fell, at occasions reducing emergency responders in direction of the particles of collapsed homes.

“There could possibly be individuals trapped… however on the identical time we won’t be certain as a result of it’s the New Yr’s vacation, which suggests individuals could possibly be elsewhere,” Prime Minister Erna Solberg informed reporters after visiting the location.

A rescue helicopter view shows the aftermath of the incident.

Native residents spoke of their expertise.

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“There have been two huge tremors that lasted for an extended whereas and I assumed it was snow being cleared or one thing like that,” Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, informed NRK.

“Then the facility all of a sudden went out, and a neighbour got here to the door and stated we would have liked to evacuate, so I awakened my three grandchildren and informed them to dress rapidly.”

Lots of earth are nonetheless shifting in what has been one of many largest clay slides in current Norwegian historical past, Toril Hofshagen, the regional head of the Norwegian Water Sources and Power Directorate, informed a information convention.

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