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| Building collapses in west Norway | Building collapses in west Norway |
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| Five people are missing after a block of flats collapsed in the western Norwegian coastal town of Alesund. | |
| Fifteen residents were evacuated from the modern six-storey block, and two are said to be slightly injured. | Fifteen residents were evacuated from the modern six-storey block, and two are said to be slightly injured. |
| The building is partially built into a steep mountainside and local reports say the collapse may have been caused by a landslide. | |
| The search for survivors has been hampered by fire, a gas leak and second rockslide, police say. | |
| 'Rescue efforts' | |
| Investigators are not sure if the first landslide was a "direct or indirect cause of the collapse". | |
| Alesund Police Operations Leader Magne Tjoennoey said: "There has been a new slide in the same place. It hit the building and shook it. | |
| "The fire has flared up again and is making our rescue efforts very difficult" | |
| Rescue teams from around the region have been called to the town, 350km (220 miles) north-west of the capital Oslo. | |
| About 20 people were believed to have been inside the relatively new block of flats in the town centre when the bottom floors caved in. | |
| Residents have been describing how the building seemed to leap forward and then collapse. | |
| The collapse of the bottom floors have also made it difficult for rescuers to get into the building to search for survivors, and they are using ladders and cranes. | |
| Mr Tjoennoey said 15 people had so far been taken to the town's hospital, and two were "slightly injured, the others unharmed". | |
| "We are trying to account for other people," he told the Associated Press. | "We are trying to account for other people," he told the Associated Press. |
| "We don't know where they are or whether they were in the building or elsewhere." | "We don't know where they are or whether they were in the building or elsewhere." |
| He said all available police, rescue and fire resources had been mobilised. | He said all available police, rescue and fire resources had been mobilised. |
| Television pictures showed firefighters spraying the building with high-pressure hoses, and a casualty being taken away on a stretcher. | Television pictures showed firefighters spraying the building with high-pressure hoses, and a casualty being taken away on a stretcher. |
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