Tragedy with the avalanche in Italy: Buried alive 30 people in a hotel [photos+video]

Thirty people were buried alive in the snow in Italy when an avalanche crushed…
hotel in the province of Abruzzo, in Pescara, after a seismic event that hit yesterday in the central Italy intensive from 5.3 to 5.7 on the Richter scale.
The official account of up now is 4 dead, the three have already been retracted by the men of search and rescue rushed to the spot, while one more has been identified but has not been retracted.
However, all the indications have extinguished the hopes to identify a person alive under the rubble and ice.
As reported from the first moment the paramedics arrived, I heard voices from the customers and the employees who were stranded there, but it seems light. “We’re loud, but there’s no answer,” they said later.


Even trained dogs don’t have identified anyone alive
It is characteristic that the specially trained dogs have not been able up to now to locate survivors in the hotel Rigopiano.
The hotel was crushed yesterday by an avalanche, and in accordance with the information so far, part of the building was moved in ten yards.
A little while ago, the mayor of the region Φαρίντολα stated that it was recovered a second dead from the wreckage.
The head medic, speaking to the ANSA from the morning noted: “There are a lot of dead”. The avalanche, which was caused after the barrage of seismic tremors, collapsed on top of her hotel Rigopiano, in the area Φαρίντολα located at the foot of mount Gran Σάσσο, in the region of Pescara. A section of the hotel has collapsed, another is buried out of the snow. At the same time, it caused, and the disruption to the power, with the temperature of the night, often touching the eight degrees below zero.
The hotel is four kilometers from the nearest village, and by yesterday morning it had cut the telephone connections. The alarm meant the customers of the hotel. “Help us, we’ll die from the cold”, they wrote in the sms to the Police.

Shock in the meantime cause the first shots of the interior of the hotel. Snow, rubble, broken glass and rocks that swept and swept up in the wake of the avalanche, which at testimonials, it was a huge, and unprecedented tension as they rode among the trees of the forest.
In some time, is expected to arrive by helicopter, to the point of tragedy, and the Italian prime minister, Paolo Τζεντιλόνι. “We’re all breathless, and we hope to be able to find survivors,” said the head of the Italian government. Pope Francis asked in parallel by the catholic bishops of Italy, to offer all possible assistance, in order to address the emergency situation which was created due to the continuous snowfall and the four strong earthquakes that occurred yesterday in central Italy.
They were all in the lobby, getting ready to leave
It is worth noting that all of the tenants of that hotel, they wanted to leave yesterday as he revealed one of those who were saved (because it was outside) they were all gathered in the lobby with their bags. “We were waiting for the snowplow to open the road. Initially we were told that the road would open at 3, but was postponed to 7 in the afternoon. We were caught in the avalanche that struck at 17:30”.
Shocking testimony
A guest at the hotel, cook at the profession that made his vacation there with his family, was saved, as well as the time it hit the avalanche was outside of the hotel. He saw her coming and ran to be saved together with the janitor of the hotel. As he said shocked, speaking to men who have come for help “”I Lost everything. Down there is my wife and my two children, Ludovica, 6 years and the Τζιανφίλιππο 8 years”.
Like he said, also, just arrived with the janitor outside the hotel, they faced a wall of snow, and from that moment and then I heard no voice, only silence.
They saw the avalanche coming, got into the car and were saved
Two people who saw the avalanche coming (they were out of the hotel) were saved by entering inside a car, outside the hotel. One of the two people who were saved in the hospital with hypothermia in a hospital, where he was transferred by helicopter. His condition is serious, but not life in danger.



The hotel fell the avalanche.

This is the hotel

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