These are ten Italians and three Czechs. A Lower Austrian reported missing was contacted by the Austrian consulate on Monday and is doing well. The provisional record of the accident is seven fatalities and eight injured.
So far, three Italians from the northern Italian province of Vicenza have been identified among the fatalities, including a 52-year-old mountain guide. He is said to have led one of the two rope teams that were buried by the glacier. The hopes of finding the missing alive are extremely low, said the rescue units.
Eight people were injured in the accident. Among them are a 67-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman from Germany who have been taken to a clinic in Belluno province, the hospital said. The authorities continued to search for the owners of four cars with foreign license plates on Monday. These parked in the parking lot, which is usually used by the mountaineers who hike towards the Marmolada summit.
Drones equipped with thermal imaging cameras, which can detect a person’s source of heat even in the dark, rescue teams combed the Marmolada glacier in search of the missing. At night, the area affected by the collapse of the glacier was illuminated with large floodlights. The search will continue in the same manner over the next few days, as the threat of further glacier fractures makes ground-based operations impossible.
“The search must continue. In the next few days we will continue to work with drones. We monitor the slope day and night. We can no longer dig, the mass of snow has solidified so much that you can no longer even cut through it with a pickaxe “, declared the President of the National Alpine Rescue Corps, Maurizio Dell’Antonio.
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Source: Nachrichten
