One dead and 12 missing after landslide on Italian island

One dead and 12 missing after landslide on Italian island
A bus was carried away after heavy rainfall (Salvatore Laporta/AP)

Heavy rainfall triggered a massive landslide early Saturday on the southern Italian resort island of Ischia, which destroyed buildings and swept parked cars into the sea, leaving at least one person dead and up to 12 missing.

The body of a woman was pulled from the mud, the Naples prefect Claudio Palomba, told a news conference.

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