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news Norway landslide rescue team finds second body © Reuters Candles burned for those who have died in the landslide at Ask A second body has been found in the search for the missing following a massive landslide that destroyed homes in Norway, police have announced. Local media quoted police commander Roy Alkvist as saying the body was found on Saturday. No other details were given. Eight people remain missing following the hillside collapse that sent mud into the village of Ask on Wednesday. The first body was found on Friday amid a major ground and air search of the area in Gjerdrum mu...

BBC News Published image captionCandles burned for those who have died in the landslide at Ask Seven bodies have now been found in the search for the missing after a massive landslide that destroyed homes in Norway last week, police have said. Four bodies were discovered on Friday and Saturday, and another three on Sunday. The first victim to be found was named as Eirik Grønole, 31. Several people remain missing following the hillside collapse that sent mud into the village of Ask on Wednesday. Rescuers are working to find survivors, but chances of this are fading. Police said the latest bod...

news Swedes join Norway rescue in landslide village Swedish rescuers and Norwegian dog handlers are preparing a risky ground search for 10 people missing after a hillside collapsed in Norway. It is snowing heavily in Ask, a village 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo, where homes toppled into a giant chasm caused by flowing mud. Police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two house in the chasm appear safe for rescuers to potentially enter. Helicopters have been searching the scene of Wednesday's landslide. A missing dog was rescued on Thursday. In Friday's operation the eight Swedi...

BBC News Published media caption"I wish I could switch place with my daughter" - Odd Steinar Sørengen's daughter is missing A body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway. Initially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask. Helicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene. But on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.

11 people missing after landslide strikes southern Norway, leaving large crater CNN 12/31/2020 Story by Reuters © Fredrik Hagen/NTB/Reuters A view of the landslide that hit north of Oslo, Norway, on Wednesday. Ten people were injured, one of them critically, and 11 were classified as missing after a landslide in southern Norway swept away more than a dozen buildings in the early hours of Wednesday, police said. The landslide struck a residential area in the municipality of Gjerdrum, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of the capital Oslo. Police said more than 900 people...