Bad weather, landslide in Varese: 2 dead – The Messenger

Bad weather, landslide in Varese: 2 dead – The Messenger

The house has remained almost entirely in the foot, but on the back of the devastation is staggering.

The landslide from the hill above, driven by a mudslide, has overwhelmed their bedrooms, where they slept a little girl of 16 years and his grandfather bought 70 years. They did not have a chance. Useless relief – the bulldozers are still working to secure the structure – in an attempt to snatch the mud and debris. The man was already dead, the girl was hit by a concrete block wall of his room, he was still alive, but he stopped breathing at the hospital. At Cerro, a small fraction of Laveno Mombello (Varese), overlooking Lake Maggiore, some residents now speak of a “tragedy waiting to happen.”

It is a lovely place with a breathtaking view, surrounded by woods and green tourist destination also: its near the house is a residence usually jam-packed with Germans. But in recent weeks the Lake Maggiore with its flooding caused problems here and some of the roads and streets are still flooded. The house where they lived three victims and family members who were saved had been built in the 60s, outside the village, 500 inhabitants. But as with so many other houses that are crumbling because of too many rainy in Italy, perhaps the ground was not the most appropriate.

In the past, there had already been landslides, and the same family did not hide his concern but, this time, the 600 millimeters of rain have fallen in recent days have caused the disaster. “I was watching TV when I heard a loud roar, I ran into the other room and I saw my husband buried cubic meters of mud,” he says in tears Lia Volpi, wife of George Lovati last night was at home with family . “It happened all of a sudden – continues close relatives who have now taken back in place – all lasted less than a minute.”

The mudslide came off the hill around 23.30. At that moment, at home, in the appropriate portion of the house, there were Lovati George, his wife Leah, his son Richard, his new girlfriend Dominican and her daughter, Adriana Pena De Moya. In a few seconds the landslide has climbed a small road and reached the house, sweeping the fence and then the wall of the side of the house facing the side, which collapsed. The others were in the front room, but George and Adriana were in their bedrooms. Maybe they were sleeping when the wall collapsed on them and the mud has flooded the floor.

The senior, who was a fisherman by trade, died in a cubic meter of mud. The nephew has been gained crushed under the large concrete block. When rescuers have pulled out from the rubble and mud was still breathing but not have it done, and she died shortly after being admitted to hospital in Cittiglio. A girl was set well in the country, studying, cheerful in hand, as they describe it all. Police, firefighters and civil defense volunteers have been working for almost 4 hours, even with bare hands to pull bodies, under the eyes of family members desperate. This morning they were still in front of what remains of their home.

Adriana’s mother is still in shock for hours and did not want to break away from her dead daughter to the hospital. Then she came back with her boyfriend to retrieve some things, protected by other relatives. “George was one of my close friend – says a pensioner in the area – he grew up on the lake and before he retired he was one of the last remaining fishermen in this area.” “Every time it rains – said a resident – the football ground of the residence and the hill is soaked in water and we are afraid. There have been landslides, but never as severe as the one last night. ” The prosecutor of Varese Julia Troina acquired the documentation on the work done in the past on the hill, all carried out by individuals, also in view of the opening of an investigation into the incident.

In the morning, on a day almost calm after days of bad weather, they arrived in front of the house of the mayor Laveno Mombello Graziella Giacon, and the president of the province of Varese, Gunnar Vincenzi. And just as he was during an inspection of the authority for the area, a land mass broke away from a hill nearby and 4 other families have had to leave their homes.

Girl dies drowned. In Cuneo, a 21 year old girl dies drowned in the river swollen by rain after being run off the road by car. It is the hour plus the toll of bad weather in the Piedmont region. And, after the truce of today, there are no new precipitation for tomorrow morning. The third victim of the latest heavy rainfall on the outskirts of Alba, in the province of Cuneo. Elisa M. has lost control of the car he was traveling and was reversed in Baraccoi river, a stream swollen by heavy rains in recent days. To see her was her father, who immediately gave the alarm, but the relief was unnecessary.