Around 220 university students were finally allowed to return to their student housing complex near Carl Berners Plass in Oslo late Sunday afternoon. Geologists and city officials determined it was safe to move back after a landslide behind the complex the week before.
More than 100 neighbours living in a residential building above the slide had already been allowed to move back after the dramatic evacuation in a congested and central area of the Norwegian capital. The slide raised new concerns about the effects of climate change, heavy rain and how that’s loosening hillsides and mountainsides all over the country.
Those evacuated were put up at a local hotel until emergency crews studied and reinforced the hill that divides the residential complex at Sukkertoppen 1-5 and the student housing at Hasleveien 9-11. The area will continue to be monitored, while the student housing organization SiO also has plans to build a retaining wall made up of containers filled with sand to protect against any additional rock- or mudslides.
NewsinEnglish.no staff
