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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.
“21 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, except for 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 the Aosta Valley during an intervention and a 36-year-old man whose vehicle had fallen into the Sesia river in the Piedmont region.
The damage is severe on both sides of the border, with several isolated villages devastated by landslides and water, with roads and bridges damaged or destroyed, and hundreds of firefighters mobilized, especially in the Col de Tende that connects the Alps. of Liguria. , in northern Italy, to the French department of the Alpes-Maritimes.
