Gianni Cipriano Photography | Archive

Torrential rains on Saturday sent a powerful landslide plowing through Casamicciola Terme, a port town on the southern Italian island of Ischia, killing eight residents — including a newborn baby and two small children — and washing away houses and burying streets. This week, rescue workers and volunteers continued to dig for survivors and to unearth the town from under thick rivers of mud.

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