Veneto Governor Luca Zaia said
Thursday that a total of 11 people are either dead or
missing-feared-dead after Sunday's Marmolada glacier disaster in
northern Italy.
"The toll of this tragedy is pretty much definitive," said Zaia
as he arrived at the Alpine town of Canazei, where the
post-disaster search operations are being coordinated.
"Eleven peple are dead or missing".
On Wednesday officials said that nine people were confirmed to
have been killed by the avalanche of ice and rocks that hit a
group of hikers when a chunk of the glacier broke away, while
three people were considered missing.
However, it is possible that the remains of a
so-far-unidentified victim of the avalanche belong to one of the
people who was counted as being missing.
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