Landslide ‘waterfall of water and mud’

MILAN: Emergency workers stepped up efforts yesterday to find 11 people missing on the southern Italian holiday island of Ischia a day after a landslide caused by torrential rain devastated a small town.

Rescue divers were searching the waters off the port of Casamicciola Terme, where a wave of mud, debris and stones broke away from the island’s highest mountain on Saturday and crashed over houses and roads, killing at least one person.

Aerial video shots showed several buildings smashed by the landslide, which engulfed the town.

One resident described seeing “a waterfall of water and mud”.