Italy landslide: Rescuers search for missing people on Ischia island

Rescue teams successful Italy are inactive searching for missing radical aft a monolithic mudslide connected the land of Ischia, adjacent Naples, destroyed homes and dragged cars into the sea.

Two radical person been confirmed dead. Eleven others stay unaccounted for.

More than 100 firefighters, arsenic good arsenic divers and earthmoving units, person been deployed to Ischia, Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said.

The landslide came pursuing days of relentless rainfall successful confederate Italy.

Two days later, destroyed cars tin beryllium seen piled connected apical of each different having been crushed by the unit of the landslide.

Workers person arrived successful diggers and begun trying to wide the streets strewn with debris and mud. But the harm appears to beryllium significant.

Like adjacent Capri, Ischia, successful the Tyrrhenian Sea, is simply a fashionable vacation destination for tourists and Italians alike. It featured successful the fashionable publication bid Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante and was the backdrop to the 1999 movie The Talented Mr Ripley.

A cardinal contented connected the island, though, is that astir fractional the houses are built illegally - and truthful cannot withstand the unit of landslides and earthquakes.

He said a harm appraisal would travel later, but insisted the authorities would "not neglect to supply the indispensable enactment to the island's population".

It has approved a authorities of emergency, allocating an archetypal sum of €2m (£1.7m) to assistance rebuild homes.

Authorities accidental they person recovered the bodies of 2 radical truthful acold - a pistillate successful her 30s and a kid of 5 oregon six.

Residents are being urged to enactment location to debar hindering exigency services successful their efforts.

Up to 155mm (6.1in) of rainfall fell connected Ischia implicit the people of six hours, causing the landslide aboriginal connected Saturday.

The torrent of mud dislodged trees, engulfed buildings and swept distant cars and people's homes.

Heavy rains person battered Campania, the portion surrounding Naples and Ischia, for respective days.

On Thursday, 2 radical were killed owed to atrocious upwind successful the region. An Argentine tourer drowned aft being swept into the oversea during a coastal storm, portion a antheral was struck by lightning connected a beach.