The small Norwegian town of Ask woke up to a landslide on Wednesday morning that injured 10 people and left 21 missing.
The landslide occurred around 4 am, forcing 700 people to evacuate for fear of further landslides. The 21 missing persons may have evacuated or may still be in buildings in the area, police spokesman Roger Pettersen told local media on Wednesday.
A huge landslide hit the small Norwegian town of Ask on Wednesday morning at around 4 am, leaving 10 people injured and nearly two dozen missing. (Fredrik Hagen / NTB via AP)
(Associated Press)
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Photos and videos of the aftermath showed buildings that fell into a ravine created by the landslide.
“What I saw were several houses that collapsed and a few cars downstairs,” Jenny Mikkelsen, a resident of Ask who lives near the landslide, told Norwegian news channel NRK. “It was absolutely horrible to watch. Everything was on top of each other, it was difficult to see what was what. Everything had collapsed into an enormous mass.
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Ask, which has a population of about 5,000, is 12 miles southeast of Norway’s capital, Oslo.
“It hurts to see how the forces of nature devastated Gjerdrum,” said the Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg tweeted Wednesday. “My thoughts go out to everyone affected by the landslide. It is now important that the emergency services do their job.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.