Search operations to find people missing after the collapse on Sunday of part of a glacier in Marmolada, in the Italian Alps, resumed this Tuesday morning with the reinforcement of drones and helicopters.
So far, the death toll points to seven dead. and eight injured and 12 people are reported missing by their relatives, although their presence at the scene has not yet been confirmed.
Among the injured are two German climbers, a 67-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman. who are in serious condition.
On Monday, the mayor of the city of Canazei, Giovanni Bernard, said that rescue teams used unmanned flying devices (drones) equipped with night vision cameras to try to locate the people who are still missing.
For and this Tuesday only the use of drones and helicopters that will fly over the area due to the risk of new landslides on the glacier.
Chances of finding survivors “they are almost zero”according to the head of the region’s high mountain rescue services, Giorgio Gajer.
The collapse of part of the glacier occurred after several days in which they felt high temperatures in the areawhere thermometers reached 10 degrees Celsius.
The tragedy of the Italian Alps forces us to seriously reflect on global warming and what is causing the disappearance of the Alpine glaciers. Marmolada is the largest glacier in this mountain range in northern Italy, near the Alps, located in Trentino.
According to the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published on March 1, the melting of ice and snow are among the top ten threats caused by global warming, the alteration of ecosystems and the threat of certain infrastructures. .
Source: Observadora
