At least six killed and others unaccounted for after chunk of melting glacier broke off and crashed into walkers
Rescue teams have flown drones over an Alpine mountainside in Italy in an attempt to spot any more victims from theAt least six people were killed and nine injured after a huge chunk of the rapidly melting glacier on the Marmolada peak broke off. Rescuers on Sunday said nine injured survivors had been found.
Nationalities of the known dead have not yet been disclosed, and conditions were too dangerous on Monday morning for rescue crews with dogs to resume the search for those missing or to bring down the bodies. Sixteen cars remained unclaimed in the area’s parking lot, while authorities sought to track down owners through licence plates. It was unclear how many of the cars might have belonged to the already identified victims or to the injured, all of whom were flown by helicopters on Sunday to hospitals.
What caused a pinnacle of the glacier to break off and thunder down the slope at a speed estimated by experts at nearly 200mph was not immediately known. But thesince May, bringing temperatures unusually high for the start of summer even up in the normally cooler Alps, was being cited as a likely factor.
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