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Rapallo fire brigade on site. The collapse due to the erosion of the cliff. Many tombs and also two chapels destroyed
A part of the Camogli cemetery (Genoa) has collapsed into the sea. There are about two hundred coffins washed away by a landslide and ended up in the sea and on the rocks.
The landslide also destroyed two chapels with the bodies contained within them and caused them to slide into the water. The collapse would have been caused by the erosion of the cliff below the cemetery area, compounded in all probability by the violent storms that have hit Liguria in recent years. Tino Revello, councilor for Public Works in the municipality of Camogli, explained to ANSA that the area had been under observation for some time and they were working on the consolidation of the rocky cliff below the cemetery: “the area had also been cordoned off because in recent days it they had produced strange creaks. ” Teams of divers from firefighters, Coast Guard boats and firefighters themselves, as well as a firefighter helicopter headed to the site of the collapse. Some coffins ended up in the sea and operations are underway to recover them and bring them back to the port of Camogli but many have been trapped in the rocks and in the earth brought by the landslide and their recovery is defined as complicated for the moment.
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