Death toll from calving glacier in Italian Alps rises to nine

July 6. () –

The Italian authorities have raised this Wednesday to nine the fatalities due to the partial collapse last Sunday of the Marmolada glacier, located in the Italian Alps mountain range.

The rescue services have located this Wednesday the bodies of two men who were on the list of missing persons, and who add to the balance of seven confirmed victims to date.

Along with the two mountaineers, the rescuers have also recovered the remains of a woman, although it is not yet clear if it is a new victim or if it was already included in the death toll, according to Adnkronos.

For the moment, the authorities have kept the number of missing at five, while the balance of hospitalized remains at seven people, four of them in Trento and three others in hospitals in Venice.

The search tasks are limited to the deployment of helicopters and drones, due to the risk of new avalanches, and the authorities do not trust to find people alive among the remains of the avalanche that occurred on Sunday, which dragged a large number of stones. and ice.

This Wednesday another mountaineer lost his life in Ortles, one of the most important mountains in the eastern part of the Alps, in northern Italy, according to local authorities.

The Italian Alps have chained several tragedies in recent days – on Monday the body of a Spaniard was also located after a fall -, and even this Wednesday another mountaineer has lost his life on Ortles, one of the most important peaks in the eastern part of the Alps.