At least 10 survivors found in Italy hotel buried by avalanche

At least 10 survivors were located, among them five rescued on Friday, from under the rubble of a hotel crushed on Wednesday by an avalanche in central Italy, the authorities said.

Firefighters were able to pull out first a woman and her child, and then three children in late afternoon.

"It has been a very complicated day, yet also very positive," Fabrizio Curcio, chief of the Civil Protection Department coordinating rescue efforts, told a press conference.

"Five people are still to be pulled out, and this is a technically hard work," he added.

Overall, some 29 people including 22 guests and 7 employees were believed to have been inside the Rigopiano hotel, when the incident occurred in late afternoon on Wednesday.
 [Xinhua/China]
21/1/17
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