Rescue workers have uncovered a fifth body from a landslide that buried homes in a village near Norway’s capital Oslo, police said Sunday, with five people still missing.
The body was recovered just before 1pm (1200 GMT), Rescue teams still hope to find survivors four days after the tragedy occurred, a police statement said.
A torrent of mud shifted houses hundreds of metres , destroying many of them, in the village of Ask, 25 kilometres (15 miles) northeast of Oslo, on Wednesday.
The discovery of a fourth body had been made Saturday after three were recovered the day before at the bleak, snow-covered scene at Ask, in Gjerdrum municipality.
Police on Saturday identified the body of the first person found on Friday as 31-year-old Eirik Grønolen.
The identities of the four other dead have not been released.
On Friday, the police published a list of the names of all the eight adults, a two-year-old and a 13-year-old child who went missing on Wednesday.
Ten people were also injured in the landslide, including one seriously who was transferred to Oslo for treatment.
About a thousand people have been evacuated out of a local population of 5,000, because of fears for the safety of their homes as the land continues to move.
Search and rescue teams have been using sniffer dogs, helicopters and drones in a bid to find survivors.
The search teams were also digging channels in the ground to evacuate casualties.
Experts say the disaster was a “quick clay slide” of approximately 300 by 800 metres (yards).
Quick clay is found in Norway and Sweden and notorious for collapsing after turning to fluid when overstressed.
Prime Minister Erna Solberg described it as one of the biggest landslides the country had ever experienced.
The royal court said in a statement that King Harald, his wife Sonja and Crown Prince Haakon were to visit the disaster area later Sunday morning.
