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Twenty-one of the 22 people reported missing by Italy as a result of the bad weather that hit the northwest of the country were found in France, Italian Civil Protection reported today, adding that the rescue was underway. According to information transmitted by the transalpine authorities to AFP, the 21 people were in Col de Tende, the crossroads between France and Italy, in the southern Alps.
“Twenty-one missing persons were found in Vievola and began to be evacuated by helicopter to Limone” in Italy, said Mara Anastasia, a spokeswoman for civil protection, who had previously said that “they are people of Italian nationality, with the exception of a German family of four. : two grandparents and two grandchildren, but with Italian names “.
With this rescue operation, only one remains, a man whose car fell into a river. Bad weather, caused by heavy rains that overflowed rivers, also killed two people in Italy: a 53-year-old firefighter in Valle d’Aosta during an intervention and a 36-year-old man whose vehicle had fallen into the Sesia river in the Piedmont region.
