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Rescuers found body parts and equipment as they searched Tuesday for hikers missing following a powerful avalanche that killed at least seven people and is being blamed in large part on rising temperatures that are melting glaciers.
At least seven people died in the tragedy on Sunday.
The terrain being searched is still so unstable that rescue crews are using drones to try to find any survivors while helicopters searched overhead.
Five people are still unaccounted for after the tragedy in the Dolomite mountains.
Filippo Bari, who has a four-year-old son, sent the picture to his family just 20 minutes before a huge chunk of the Marmolada glacier broke off, sending an avalanche down the slope on Sunday.