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About a dozen people are missing after a severe storm triggered a landslide on the Italian island of Ischia.
The island, in the Gulf of Naples, was engulfed by heavy rain overnight, with the landslide hitting the hamlet of Casamicciola Terme early on Saturday morning, flooding homes and sweeping away several cars.
The deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, had earlier said that eight people had died.
But the Naples prefect, Claudio Palomba, clarified: “At the moment, from all the institutions involved, we have no reports of confirmed deaths, no bodies have been recovered.”
He said the situation was evolving but was “very serious” and complicated, with 12 people missing and people trapped under the mud.
Among those missing are a family with two children and a couple with a newborn child, according to Italian news reports.
