Following a massive landslide on the Italian vacation island of Ischia, rescuers have uncovered the body of a woman while excavating through the mud.
A young girl’s body was recovered from the muck after a landslide devastated a small island in southern Italy.
At least three people have been killed, according to the prefect’s office in Naples, while approximately ten people are still missing on the vacation island of Ischia.
According to the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera, the youngster is reported to be five years old, and her parents are gone.
A 31-year-old woman’s body was earlier retrieved by rescuers crawling through the muck, but her partner is still missing.
“We continue the search with shattered hearts because among the missing are some children,” said the mayor of a village on the island, Giacomo Pascale.
More than 150 individuals are now homeless.
Early Saturday morning, a massive avalanche demolished structures and carried parked automobiles into the ocean.
Claudio Palomba, the prefect of Naples, announced late Saturday night that around 100 individuals living near the landslide area were evacuated.
In their search for any victims, rescuers are sifting through seven meters of mud and debris, as the sun and absence of rain on Sunday showed the scale of the devastation in the tourist attraction in the Gulf of Naples.
Images depicted heavy muck, debris, and stones across Casamicciola Terme, the island’s hardest-hit hamlet. Several cars were reportedly thrown into the water by the storm and submerged along the coastline.
In one video, a mud-covered man is seen chest-deep in murky water, holding to a shutter.
According to officials, the densely populated island received nearly five inches of rain in six hours, the greatest rainfall in twenty years.
There was an initial misunderstanding regarding the number of fatalities.
Initially, Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini stated that eight people had been proven dead, but the interior ministry later stated that no deaths had been confirmed and that 10 to 12 individuals were missing.
Saturday evening, the body of a woman, named locally as Eleonora Sirabella, age 31, was recovered.
