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Luca Bruno and Francis Demilio
Kanazei, Italy — Authorities say glaciers in the Italian Alps He said the downhill situation from was too volatile to allow searchers and dogs to work on weekends in a mountain of crushed ice the size of an apartment building. Kill some hikers. However, with the help of the drone, two more bodies were found on the edge of a large amount of debris from the avalanche.
The discovery has brought the known death toll from the avalanche on Sunday to nine, President Maurizio Gatti of Trent said Wednesday night at a resort on the top of the Marmolada Glacier. I told reporters in Canazei, town. Mountain.
The five people who were hiking are not described. But officials emphasized that it's not clear if they will be counted among the five who said the family had never returned from the mountains until they were able to identify the two bodies identified by the drone. did.
All missing persons are Italian. So far, four out of nine dead have been identified.
While hikers enjoyed Sunday outings in warm, sunny weather, most of the glaciers were cut off and avalanche ice and rocks thundered across major hiking trails. ..
Rescuers say they hope Thursday will cool, reduce the risk of avalanches, and allow searchers to reach the slopes of Marmolada. rice field.
A missing Italian relative was forced to recover the body of a loved one believed to be buried in an avalanche. The size of the distant vertices of the glacier is compared to the building of the apartment.
Trent Prosecutor Sandro Raimondi said in an interview Wednesday on Italian state radio that he had begun a formal investigation to determine if negligence was included. The prosecution will consult with a geologist.
However, Raimondi said the avalanche seemed unpredictable at this point.
"The unpredictability at this point is the protagonist," he said.
Forensic police investigators dispatched from the city of Palma have taken samples from some of the bodies recovered on Wednesday and belong to one of the missing persons. I tried to judge.
Meanwhile, the mayor of Canazei and a small town at the foot of the Dolomites mountains have issued ordinances to hikers to close the summit of Marmolada. Some people ignored the order and scrambled the lower slopes.
Authorities cite a week-long heat wave and light winter snowfall in northern Italy as potential factors for the collapse of a glacier weekend that has shrunk dramatically over decades. ..
Last weekend, temperatures in Marmolada exceeded 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit) and were unusually high in early summer, officials said.
Polar science experts at a research center run by the Italian government said that the Marmolada Glacier could disappear completely in the next 25-30 years if current climate trends continue. I presumed that there is.
Between 2004 and 2015, glaciers lost 30% of their volume and 22% of their area.
People whose livelihoods are intertwined with the mountains provided their own observations. Carlo Budel, the manager of the alpine hut on the Marmolada side, remembered last month that the glacier was not covered with snow.
"When I moved to the hut on June 1st last year, it took only half a day to get in because the hut was all covered with snow," he said. “But this year we opened the door in just 30 minutes.”
— Andrea Rosa and Paolo Santalucia contributed to this report.
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