Death toll in Italian Alps glacier avalanche rises to 9

The Punta Rocca glacier
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Search crews have found two more bodies at the site of an avalanche in the Italian Alps, bringing the death toll to nine, Italian authorities announced Wednesday.

Three people remain unaccounted for after a chunk of a glacier broke off and sent ice and rock crashing down the slope and over a popular hiking trail, The Guardian reports. Eight other people were injured in the tragedy, two of them seriously. Five of those who died have been identified so far: Filippo Bari, 27; Tommaso Carollo, 48; Paolo Dani, 52; and Liliana Bertoldi, 54.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.