Several houses destroyed by a landslide in Norway

Happened just now in a city called Arendal...
It�s early morning there now and people were most likely asleep.

They don�t know eventual numbers of injured or dead yet.
No link available yet either.

Maybe someone can keep an eye open for this story?
I�m leaving work soon and might not be able to follow up...

Here a link for scandinavian readers.
It�s the best I can do just now.
Maybe somebody can translate to english when the reports are updated?

They are evacuating the nearby houses just now.
It happened in a dense populated area 5:00 in the morning, local time.

Norwegian link which will be updated as they know more

Ok, it seems like the initial reports were quite more dramatic as they didn�t know anything.

However, now they say that nobody was hurt.
Nobody is missing and they know where everybody is.
Let�s hope they are right about this...

False alarm.
Good.
Just property damage.

Where there really bad storms in the area or was this caused by something else?

Originally posted by Indy
Where there really bad storms in the area or was this caused by something else?

They said it has been a lot of rain lately.
And it was also close to a construction-site for a new shopping-center or something, which might have contributed to it.