At least six dead after Alpine glacier chunk strikes hikers in Italy
A huge chunk of the glacier near Trento broke off and crashed down the mountain on Sunday.
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A huge chunk of the glacier near Trento broke off and crashed down the mountain on Sunday.
ROME: An avalanche sparked by the collapse of the largest glacier in the Italian Alps killed at least six people and injured eight others on Sunday, an emergency services spokeswoman said.
A huge chunk of the glacier near Trento broke off and crashed down the mountain on Sunday.
At least six people have been killed and another eight were injured when a chunk of an Alpine glacier broke loose and slid down a mountainside in Italy, sending ice, snow and rock slamming into a popular hiking trail.
A huge block broke off this Sunday, July 3 from the Marmolada glacier, the largest in the Italian Alps, causing an avalanche which left at least five dead and eight injured.