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Reuters
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By Elvira Pollina

Landslide kills at least seven on Italy's Ischia island

A member of the Coast Guard looks for documents inside a destroyed car, following a landslide on the Italian island of Ischia, Italy November 28, 2022. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane

At least seven people, including a newborn baby and two children, were killed on the southern Italian holiday island of Ischia after a landslide caused by torrential rain devastated a small town, an official said on Sunday.

Five people were still missing, Naples prefect Claudio Palomba told a news conference. Dozens of emergency workers rushed to the island while rescue divers searched the waters off the coast, he said.

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