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Body found in rubble as rescuers search for nine people missing after Norway landslide
Rescuers have found one body while nine people remain missing two days after a landslide in southern Norway swept away at least nine buildings.
Key points:
- The operation is still being considered a search for survivors
- A search-and-rescue team from neighbouring Sweden is assisting
- About 1,000 people have so far been evacuated from the area.
Another 10 people were injured after Wednesday’s landslide in the residential area in the Gjerdrum municipality, about 30km north of the capital, Oslo.
“One person has been found. Unfortunately this person is confirmed dead,” the head of the police operation at the site, Roy Alkvist, told reporters, declining to give any details on the person.
Emergency workers are continuing their search in what Bjoern…
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