Rescue at the scene of the landslide in Ask, Norway, January 2, 2020. -

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The toll of the landslide in Norway is already heavy, yet it is only provisional.

A new body was found in the rubble caused by the disaster, authorities said on Saturday.

This brings the death toll to four.

The emergency services are still continuing their operations to find six missing.

Ten injured including one serious

“We made a new discovery of a dead person.

It is in the same area as the third body.

We took out the two bodies, ”explained a police official, Knut Hammer, in the early evening.

The operation continued overnight, more than three days after the impressive landslide in the town of Ask in the municipality of Gjerdrum, north-east of Olso, which also left ten injured, including a serious one.

Rescue workers still believe they can find survivors in air pockets in buildings that are still partially intact.

The canine brigade has reported different places in the area where rescuers will be working.

One of the dogs participating in the operation was injured during the searches.

Evacuation of a thousand people

In Ask, the earth slipped early on December 30, leading to the evacuation of a thousand people who cannot return to their homes as the terrain remains unstable.

It crumbled again during the night from Friday to Saturday.

"We are installed in a hotel (…), it is a completely surreal and terrible situation", confided residents evacuated, Olav Gjerdingen and Sissel Meyer Gjerdingen.

About ten houses and 31 dwellings collapsed and some houses moved over 400 meters.

The Norwegian Directorate of Water and Energy (NVE) estimates that the landslide occurred over an area of ​​about 350 by 800 meters. The land that slipped is a specific clay, present in Norway and Sweden, which may fluidize and collapse quickly but the likelihood of a similar landslide in the region remains low, estimates the NVE.

Visiting the site, Prime Minister Erna Solberg stressed that this landslide was "one of the most serious" that her country has known.

King Harald, his wife Sonja and Crown Prince Haakon are expected in Gjerdrum late Sunday morning.

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