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Neighbourhood evacuated as landslide buries houses, destroys buildings in Norway
Ten people were injured, one of them critically, and 21 people remained unaccounted for after a landslide in southern Norway swept away more than a dozen buildings in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.
Key points:
- A large crater was formed by the landslide, with buildings hanging on the edge
- Rescue operations could take days, as the area remains unstable
- Earth is still moving in what is one of the largest clay slides in recent Norwegian history
The landslide struck a residential area in the municipality of Gjerdrum, about 30km north of the capital Oslo.
Photos of the site showed a large crater with destroyed buildings at the bottom of it.
Other buildings hung on the edges of the crater, with one house seen collapsing, TV footage…
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