Italian rescuers search for missing after island landslide

Italian rescuers search for missing after island landslide
A number of children are among the missing after heavy rain triggered a landslide on the Italian island of Ischia (Salvatore Laporta/AP)

Rescuers were digging through mud for a second day on Sunday in the search for people lost in an enormous landslide on the Italian resort island of Ischia.

One body was recovered on Saturday and about a dozen people, including children, were reported missing in the port town of Casamicciola, feared buried under mud and debris that firefighters said was 20ft (6m) deep in some places.

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