A landslide

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Four bodies have now been found in the search for the missing
following a massive `landslide that destroyed homes in Norway,
police have announced.
Three bodies were discovered on Saturday. The first victim to be found,
on Friday, has been named by police as 31-year-old Eirik Grønolen.
Six people remain missing following the hillside collapse that sent mud
into the village of Ask on Wednesday.
Rescuers are working in freezing conditions to find survivors.
Police Chief Ida Melbo Øystese told a news conference that while
neither the "forces of nature" nor time were on their side there was
still a possibility they might find survivors.
She said there may be air pockets inside some of the buildings buried in
the mud that may allow people to survive for a number of days.

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• Helicopters and drones
spent two days searching
the scene. Rescuers began
moving into the danger
zone on Styrofoam boards;
the bright orange boards
were laid down on the mud
in a domino-effect as
rescuers tried to reach the
wrecked homes.A giant
army vehicle called a
"paver", which has a giant
steel bridge on which
rescuers can move, was also
brought in but conditions
were not yet good enough
for the 50-tonne machine to
be deployed

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• Rescuers are in a race against time, with only a
few hours of daylight in the Norwegian winter
to search the area. The conditions have also
proved challenging, with temperatures
dropping to -1C (30F) and the clay ground
proving too unstable for emergency workers to
walk on. Police have not given details of the
missing, but they are believed to include men,
women and children.
• Among them is a woman who was talking to
her husband on the phone while walking the
dog when the line went dead.Further reports
say a 69-year-old woman and a couple and
their small child are also missing, as well as a
woman in her 50s and her adult son.
• One survivor, Odd Steinar Sørengen, said his
daughter was still missing. "I wish I could swap
places with" her, he said, adding that he had
been told by the police not to give up hope on
finding her alive. A 2005 geological survey
labelled the area as at high risk of landslides,
according to a report seen by the broadcaster
TV2. Despite this, the homes were built three
years later in 2008

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• 1 Searchers and savers
• 2 An unfortunate person who suffers from some
circumstances
• 3 Powerful aspects of nature and weather
• 4 Amount of oxygen to breath
• 5 Fight the clock
• 6 Upon pushing the first domino, the next domino in line
will be knocked over
• 7 To fight the clock when every minute counts
• 8 Difficult circumstances
• 9 Interchange
• 10 To identify, to mark, to classify as