The unevenness of Norwegian land in Norway increases as the search engines continue

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Norwegian rescuers have recovered six bodies in a village run over this Wednesday, not far from the country’s capital, with 4 people still missing.

The last two discoveries were made Sunday at the remains of buildings in the same area as previous findings, Goran Syversen, head of the firefighting operation, told reporters. Rescuers worked all night and are still looking for survivors, he said.

The fast clay slide passed about 20 kilometers north of Oslo and followed a month of record rainfall in the capital. About 1,000 people were evacuated from the area after the landslide devastated large parts of the village.

These landslides are known to occur in Norway and neighboring Sweden when the rapid clay common to some parts of Scandinavia fills with rainwater and becomes liquid, according to the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute. In June several houses were carried out to sea due to a similar slide. No one was injured in the incident.