Rescue workers have recovered a fourth body as they continue searching for another six people still missing days after a landslide buried homes near Norway's capital, authorities said.
An intense search and rescue operation has been underway in the snow-covered village of Ask, 25km northeast of Oslo, since disaster struck in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
"We have made a new discovery of a dead person. It's in the same area as the third body," police official Knut Hammer told a news conference.
A third body has been found in the search for the missing following a massive landslide that destroyed homes in Norway, police have announced.
ReplyDeleteLocal media report that it was found on Saturday within hours of the second body.
Seven 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 municipality.