Girl’s body found in mudslide as death toll rises to two

Search teams pulled the body of a young girl from her family home on Sunday as they dug through mud for a second day in the search for people still missing after an enormous landslide on the Italian resort island of Ischia.

The Naples prefect confirmed that the death toll in the tragedy had risen to two, following also the recovery of the body of a 31-year-old woman from the island on Saturday.

A further 10 people remained missing in the port town of Casamicciola, feared buried under mud and debris.

“Mud and water tend to fill every space,’’ the spokesperson for Italian firefighters, Luca Cari, told RAI state TV. “Our teams are searching with hope, even if it is very difficult.”