italy landslide five bodies found as rescue work continues bbc news bbc homepage skip to content accessibility help your account home news sport reel worklife travel future more menu more menu search bbc home news sport reel worklife travel future culture music tv weather sounds close menu bbc news menu home war in ukraine coronavirus climate video world uk business tech science more stories entertainment arts health world news tv in pictures reality check newsbeat long reads world africa asia australia europe latin america middle east us canada italy landslide five bodies found as rescue work continues published 1 day ago share close share page copy link about sharing media caption watch the bbcs mark lowen at the scene of ischia mudslide devastation by mark lowen in ischia sam hancock in london bbc news heartbreaking accounts are emerging of the last moments of victims of a powerful landslide that tore across the italian island of ischia on saturday the father of one woman in her 30s told how she phoned him for help as earth began breaking on the hill above her but that he was unable to save her hers was one of five bodies found by rescuers but at least nine people are still missing on the island off naples the torrent of mud and debris destroyed homes and dragged cars into the sea it followed days of relentless rain in southern italy but now that weather has abated the scale of the destruction is becoming clear more than 100 firefighters as well as divers and earthmoving units have been deployed to ischia to try to clear streets strewn with debris destroyed vehicles are piled on top of each other crushed by the force of the mudslide whose trail of destruction indelibly marks the landscape of this popular tourist island image source ciro de lucareuters image caption rescue team members attempt to remove a car from the sea like nearby capri ischia in the tyrrhenian sea is a holiday destination for foreigners and italians alike it featured in the book series neapolitan novels by elena ferrante and was the backdrop to the 1999 film the talented mr ripley a key issue on the island though is that around half the houses are built illegally and so cannot withstand the force of landslides and earthquakes nello musumeci the minister for civil protection told il messaggero newspaper that italy needed a national plan of adaptation to climate change to ensure buildings and infrastructure could withstand increasingly frequent phenomena such as heavy rainfall securing our territory is the biggest public work we have to complete in the next few years if we dont well mourn yet more people he said the government has approved a state of emergency allocating an initial sum of €2m £1.7m to help rebuild homes in pictures aftermath of italian landslide authorities say they have recovered the bodies of five people so far a woman in her 30s whose husband is still missing called her father for help as masses of land began breaking off the mountain but he was unable to reach her due to the torrents of mud surrounding the house when rescue services managed to wade through the debris the woman was already dead the body of an elderly woman was also found on sunday as well as that of a young girl of five or six whose parents brother and uncles are reportedly still missing on sunday afternoon emergency workers said they had found a fourth body details of that victims identity are still not known residents are being urged to stay home to avoid hindering emergency services in their efforts up to 155mm 6.1in of rain fell on ischia over the course of six hours causing the landslide early on saturday media caption landslides strike italian island of ischia the torrent of mud dislodged trees engulfed buildings and swept away cars and peoples homes heavy rains have battered campania the region surrounding naples and ischia for several days on thursday two people were killed due to bad weather in the region an argentine tourist drowned after being swept 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