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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Steffie Banatvala

Couple’s tragic last picture before wife plunges 160ft to her death in Italian mountains

Maurizio Filini and Laura Barbieri hours before she died on an Italian mountain - (Facebook)

The husband of a woman who fell to death while hiking in Italy has shared the couple's last picture in an emotional tribute.

Maurizio Filini and Laura Barbieri, 47, had been climbing the popular Mount Guglielmo in northern Italy when she suddenly slipped and fell 160 feet in front of her partner. Mr Filini quickly raised the alarm, triggering a rapid response from paramedics and a mountain rescue helicopter, but Ms Barbieri was pronounced dead at the scene.

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