6 found alive after Italy avalanche

January 20, 2017 16:28

Six people have been found alive in an Italy hotel two days after devastating avalanche, Italian media report.

Several people have died after a ski hotel was buried by an avalanche in earthquake-hit central Italy.

Reports said there had been at least 20 guests and seven staff at the Hotel Rigopiano on the lower slopes of the Gran Sasso mountain when the first of four powerful quakes hit the region on Wednesday morning.

The avalanche hit the hotel in Pescara, a province in the Abruzzo region, on Wednesday, Italian news agency ANSA reported, citing rescuers who had spoken to witnesses.

Italian media has reported that someone trapped in the hotel sent an SMS to rescuers that read: Help, help, were dying of cold.

Rescuers reportedly had difficulties accessing the area, which was snowed in by severe storms. Twenty firemen, two mountain rescue teams, six ambulances and local police attended the site, a civil protection agency spokesman said. Electricity to the hotel is also out.

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