<p>Norwegian rescue workers on Tuesday abandoned hope of finding survivors from a landslide that buried homes in a village six days ago, killing 10 people.</p>.<p>While three people remain unaccounted for, authorities said they are now presumed dead, bringing the official death toll from the landslide to 10, though only seven bodies have been recovered.</p>.<p>"We no longer have hope of finding people alive in the landslide," Ida Melbo Oystese, police chief for Norway's eastern district, told a press briefing on Tuesday.</p>.<p>"Ten people have lost their lives, three are still missing," she added.</p>.<p>"We have examined all the areas where it is possibly imaginable that someone has survived. We have done everything in our power," Melbo Oystese stressed.</p>.<p>While no longer hoping to find survivors, the search continues for the bodies of those still missing.</p>.<p>Rescue workers have tackled snow and freezing temperatures in the search in and around the village of Ask about 25 kilometres (15 miles) northeast of Oslo.</p>.<p>The landslide hit in the early hours of December 30, sweeping away nine buildings.</p>.<p>The seven recovered bodies, including those of a two-year-old girl, her father and her pregnant mother, were pulled out of the tangled mix of debris, earth and snow.</p>.<p>Rescue efforts had to be temporarily halted earlier on Tuesday when the earth began to shift again, although no one was hurt.</p>.<p>The landslide also left 10 people injured and more than 1,000 people from the municipality of Gjerdrum were evacuated, although some have since returned to their homes.</p>.<p>Prime Minister Erna Solberg, who went to Ask on Wednesday, said the landslide was "one of the largest" that Norway had ever experienced.</p>.<p>Local residents have left candles near the site of the tragedy.</p>.<p>The earth that shifted contains a specific clay called quick clay, present in Norway and Sweden, which can turn to fluid when overstressed.</p>
<p>Norwegian rescue workers on Tuesday abandoned hope of finding survivors from a landslide that buried homes in a village six days ago, killing 10 people.</p>.<p>While three people remain unaccounted for, authorities said they are now presumed dead, bringing the official death toll from the landslide to 10, though only seven bodies have been recovered.</p>.<p>"We no longer have hope of finding people alive in the landslide," Ida Melbo Oystese, police chief for Norway's eastern district, told a press briefing on Tuesday.</p>.<p>"Ten people have lost their lives, three are still missing," she added.</p>.<p>"We have examined all the areas where it is possibly imaginable that someone has survived. We have done everything in our power," Melbo Oystese stressed.</p>.<p>While no longer hoping to find survivors, the search continues for the bodies of those still missing.</p>.<p>Rescue workers have tackled snow and freezing temperatures in the search in and around the village of Ask about 25 kilometres (15 miles) northeast of Oslo.</p>.<p>The landslide hit in the early hours of December 30, sweeping away nine buildings.</p>.<p>The seven recovered bodies, including those of a two-year-old girl, her father and her pregnant mother, were pulled out of the tangled mix of debris, earth and snow.</p>.<p>Rescue efforts had to be temporarily halted earlier on Tuesday when the earth began to shift again, although no one was hurt.</p>.<p>The landslide also left 10 people injured and more than 1,000 people from the municipality of Gjerdrum were evacuated, although some have since returned to their homes.</p>.<p>Prime Minister Erna Solberg, who went to Ask on Wednesday, said the landslide was "one of the largest" that Norway had ever experienced.</p>.<p>Local residents have left candles near the site of the tragedy.</p>.<p>The earth that shifted contains a specific clay called quick clay, present in Norway and Sweden, which can turn to fluid when overstressed.</p>