A major landslide destroyed homes overnight in a village in Norway close to the capital Oslo, leaving at least 11 people unaccounted for and 10 injured, police and local media said Wednesday.
Video footage from the scene showed a whole hillside had collapsed in Ask, in the municipality of Gjerdrum, 25 kilometres (15 miles) northeast of the capital. Homes were left crushed and buried in dark mud.
Snow fell throughout the morning as the emergency services evacuated the injured and attempted to secure those homes still standing. Some houses had been left teetering on the edge of the crater left behind by the slide, with a few falling over the edge as the day went on.
Norwayâs Prime Minister Erna Solberg, who travelled to the village of around 1,000 people on Wednesday, described the landslide as âone of the largestâ the country had seen.
âItâs a dramatic experience to be here,â Solberg told reporters, expressing particular concern for those still missing….
