Drone search resumes for missing hikers on Italian glacier after avalanche

A view of the Punta Rocca glacier near Canazei, in the Italian Alps in northern Italy, two days after a huge chunk of the glacier broke loose and caused the fatal avalanche (AP)

Rescuers using drones have resumed the search for an estimated 13 hikers who are unaccounted for following an avalanche in northern Italy.

At least seven people died in the tragedy which is being blamed in large part on rising temperatures that are melting glaciers.