Rescuers searching Sunday night on the landslide which was notified clock 17.01 to ensure that there are no more cars that can be taken by snowfall.
Four cars were involved in close, one of them was completely covered by the mudslide. In these put it together 11 people, according to operations manager Morten crown in Hordaland Police. Everyone is accounted for.
He saw avalanches in the rearview mirror. Then came two bloody people against him.
Taken in the slide: – Suddenly just snow
– We keep on digging yet. Your ongoing, since we can not say that others may have been taken by the landslide, said crown to BT clock 19.
The landslide happened around three kilometers south of Masfjorden Tunnel E39.
Police reports before midnight Sunday that the search has been completed, and that no more cars are found.
Police efforts leader Ivar Kvant says that there is still risk of landslide in Romarheimsdalen because of wet snow and wind. E39 in Romarheimsdalen are closed until Monday, and will not be opened before the place is investigated for further landslides.
– When we arrived, there was a car completely buried by snow, said Kvant.
Red Cross undertakes kontrollsøk throughout landslide area beyond Sunday evening.
Children injured
Two adults – a sambeorpar from Bergen – and a child in another car was bruised. Paramedics who came to place treated the child.
Cohabiting couple, who will remain anonymous, tells BT that they suddenly, without warning, witnessed heavy snowfalls came across the car. Their car was buried, apart from one half of a rear window. Thus the two could crawl out the window. Cohabiting couple then ran toward the cars in front of them that had stopped.
In one car set Petter Solberg, who drove the two injured to emergency in Knarvik.
Wheel loaders to dig
110 exchange in Oslo said earlier Sunday night that they searched with rods.
– If there are cars there, we estimate that there are some in them. The road is busy and if the slide first hit a car, we think that there are people in it, says the guard commander Torkjell Helle at 110 exchange in Hordaland.
E39 is one of the main roads in western Norway, and there are extra much traffic because it is the last day in the winter.
Wheel is sent up to dig, according to Helle. The slide is 40-50 meters long and runs three to four meters high above the road.
Many resources are in place or on the way to rasstedet: In addition to wheel loader, the Red Cross, ambulance and seven dog carriages from Norwegian Rescue Dogs requisitioned for rescue work.
Bad weather in the area
The slide has gone on the south side of Masfjorden tunnel in Nordhordland. The first message from the police was that three cars were buried.
– I’ve hardly seen so much rescue personnel and blue lights. There is a long queue into the tunnel, including trailers that must be reversed, says freelance photographer Erlend Spurkeland. He stands on the north side of Masfjorden tunnel.
– It’s raining and blowing very onsite. All resources are headed, where we have one patrol car arrived. One ambulance also arrived forward, said operations manager Morten crown Sunday afternoon.
There are requisitioned heavier machines for digging, several carriages from Norwegian Rescue Dogs is heading, which also rescue and SeaKing helicopter is.
– Crew from Masfjorden, Lindas and Meland is heading. Also a special group from Bergen come out, says Helle from 110 exchange
Those arriving by ferry Lavik-Oppedal north, redirected by the police in the direction Sløvåg.
The road is closed
Rasstedet by Romarheimsdalen located in Nordhordland Lindas.
NPRA writes Sunday night that an opening will not happen until a geologist has examined rasstedet . It happens Monday morning.
Detour is signposted in Knarvik and by Kringla to ferry route Leirvåg-Sløvåg.
On Association Masfjordnes-Duesund will cable ferry MS “Fjon.M” go all night, they write, while they plan to get stronger Leirvåg-Sløvåg with an extra ferry.
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