Girl, 11, Confirmed as 4th Victim of Alaska Landslide, 2 People Still Missing

The landslide that occurred the previous evening near Wrangell, Alaska, on Nov. 21, 2023. Alaska Department of Public Safety via AP

WRANGELL, Alaska—Authorities recovered the body of an 11-year-old girl Saturday evening from the debris of a landslide in southeast Alaska that tore down a wooded mountainside days earlier, smashing into homes in a remote fishing village.

The girl, Kara Heller, was the fourth person confirmed killed by last Monday night’s landslide.