Royal Oak Tribune

3rd body found after landslide; 7 still missing

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HELSINKI » Rescue teams searching for survivors four days after a landslide carried away homes in a Norwegian village found no signs of life amid the ruined buildings and debris. Three bodies have been recovered but searchers are still looking for seven more people believed to be missing. The landslide in the village of Ask is the worst in modern Norwegian history and has shocked citizens in the Nordic nation. Search teams patrolledw­ith dogs as helicopter­s and drones with heat-detecting camerasfle­w amid harsh winter conditions over the ravaged hillside in Ask, a village of 5,000 people 16 miles northeast of Oslo. Norwegian police pledged not to scale down the search even though a rescue team from neighborin­g Sweden has already returned home.

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