Search teams pulled the body of a young girl from her family home on Sunday as they dug through mud for a second day in the search for people still missing after an enormous landslide on the Italian resort island of Ischia.
Heavy rain caused massive landslides on the southern Italian island of Ischia. Many homes were swept away, leaving at least a dozen people missing.MILAN — Search teams pulled the body of a young girl from her family home on Sunday as they dug through mud for a second day in the search for people still missingThe Naples prefect confirmed that the death toll in the tragedy had risen to two, following also the recovery of the body of a 31-year-old woman from the island on Saturday.
"Our biggest hope is that people identified as missing have found refuge with relatives and friends and have not advised of their position," he added. "We are continuing the search with our hearts broken, because among the missing are also minors," Giacomo Pascale, the mayor of the neighboring town of Lacco Ameno, told RAI.
The Naples prefect, Claudio Palomba, said on Sunday that 15 homes had been overwhelmed by the stream of mud. In addition to the dead and missing, four people were injured and more than 160 displaced. The island received nearly five inches of rain in six hours, the heaviest rainfall in 20 years, according to officials. Experts said the disaster was exacerbated by building in areas of high risk on the mountainous island, which is also in an seismically active zone. Two people were killed in 2017 when a 4.0-magnitude quake struck Casamicciola and Lacco Ameno.
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