Many Still Missing In Italian Glacier Avalanche

July 4, 2022 10:15 am

ROME (AP) – Heavy rain was hampering the search in Italy for those unaccounted for – perhaps as many 15 – a day after an enormous chunk of an Alpine glacier broke off and slammed into hikers. Italian state TV said a body was located on Monday, raising to seven the known death toll of the avalanche from the Marmolada glacier a day earlier. Italian news reports said so far, four victims have been identified in a morgue set up in an ice rink in the resort town of Canazei. State TV reported that three of the dead were Italians, while the fourth was from Czechia. áWith conditions too dangerous for rescuers and dogs to search the slope, drones were being used for most of Monday morning.