At least seven persons are lifeless and 5 are nonetheless lacking Tuesday after a part of a glacier collapsed within the Italian Alps on Sunday throughout record-high temperatures.
A portion of the Punta Rocca glacier on the mountain of Marmolada, the most important alpine glacier within the Italian Alps, abruptly collapsed on Sunday afternoon, inflicting an avalanche that caught greater than two dozen hikers and mountaineers in a torrent of rocks, ice, and particles that reached a speed of 185 miles per hour (300 kilometers per hour), in line with a regional official. The collapse got here simply in the future after the summit of the glacier noticed a record-breaking temperature of fifty levels Fahrenheit (10 levels Celsius), Bloomberg reported.
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