The death toll from the deadly avalanche on the Marmolada, the highest mountain in the Dolomites, has risen to ten confirmed deaths, Belga News Agency reports.
Emergency services have recovered another body, Maurizio Fugatti, the president of the Italian autonomous province of Trento, told journalists in Canazei on Thursday night.
The identities of six of the dead are known. They are two people from the Czech Republic and four from Italy. Five Italians are still missing. Eight people were also injured.
Experts at the Italian carabinieri will determine the identities of the four remaining victims and verify whether the bodies found are those of the missing persons.
The rescue work continues. A Swiss company has installed two surveillance systems: a dual radar that can register moving masses, and a radar system that scans the surface and detects changes down to the millimeter.
The President of the Italian Senate, Maria Elisabetta Casellati, visited the disaster site on Thursday to express her condolences. “We need to make it clear that climate change is a game-changer,” she said, adding that the melting glaciers required a change in policy.
A large part of the Marmolada glacier broke off on Sunday from the 3,343-meter mountain, causing an avalanche.
The glacier is melting faster due to the warm temperatures, with the water accumulating under the ice layer, making it unstable.
