Tragedy at Ischia - Tragedia ad Ischia
Ischia, mudslide sweeps off the houses: four dead people, family destroyed.
Non mi sento di commentare le immagini che ho messo qui: esse parlano da sole. Ho solo fatto una cronaca in inglese e la richiesta di preghiere da parte di tutti i miei amici sparsi per il mondo.
Yesterday the mud covered Ischia at the first lights of a gray and rainy day. Without a roar, a slow river of mud and water submerged the houses in the fraction Pilastri (Pillars) at Ischia, destroying, with its terrible passage, persons and things. Tragic is the estimate: in the mire a father and his three daughters.
Miraculously unharmed the mother and a three years old nephew who lived with them in the cursed villa. Nine the wounded men. Four hundred the persons cleared in the zones near the hill. In the next hours they will be arranged in the various points of the island where teams of crisis have been immediately built.
"The first mudslide has been detached from the mount of Vezzi about at the 7:25 of this morning and has involved three houses. Then, the other landslipes, presumably 3 or 4, that involved also the rescuers, fortunately without victims", explains the regional city council member of the Civil Protection, Luigi Nocera. Terrible, therefore the estimate of the disaster. Under the landslide they have found Luigi Buono, 53 years, cook in a restaurant of Ischia Port and his three daughters: Anna, 18 years, store clerk in an apparel store; Maria 16 years, employed in a supermarket and Julia, 12 years. Miraculously unharmed Stella, the nephew of Orsola Migliaccio, 40 years, the wife of Luigi.
According to the first reconstructions to save the life of the child it could have been the slabs of the bed.
This is the chronicle. It was terrible, I'll remember the images of this disaster for the rest of my life. The Bishop Philip was on site after one hour and I saw him crying and like a good father walking along the paths of the life's desolation.
I ask to all my LJ friends only prayers for the souls of that father and his three daughters and prayers for the wife, without family, without a reason to live anymore, to help her to face this tragedy with a Christian faith.
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