A large chunk of Alpine glacier broke loose Sunday afternoon and roared down a mountainside in Italy, sending ice, snow and rock slamming into hikers on a popular trail on the peak and killing at least six and injuring eight, authorities said.
It couldn’t immediately be determined how many hikers were in the area or whether any were missing, said Walter Milan, a spokesperson for the national Alpine rescue corps who provided the death and injury toll.
Nationalities or ages of the dead weren’t immediately available, Milan said. Of the eight hospitalized survivors, two were in grave condition, emergency dispatch services said. But Milan said some on the slope might be able to get down by themselves, including by using the peak’s cable car. The Alpine rescue service said in a tweet that the segment broke off near Punta Rocca , “along the itinerary normally used to reach the peak.”
But Milan stressed that high heat, which soared unusually above 10 C on Marmolada’s peak in recent days, was only one possible factor in Sunday’s tragedy.
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