Rescue workers in Italy have found a missing helicopter in the Apennin Mountains in the Emilia-Romagna region.

The site is on the Monte Cusna mountain, the mountain rescue team wrote on Twitter on Saturday afternoon.

The ANSA news agency reported, citing helpers on site, that the corpses of five people were found.

“We had coordinates and flew to the site.

We found everything there, ”said a soldier of the Air Force in a video tweeted by the military.

The site was in a difficult to access area in a valley.

Rescuers would have to walk there.

The helicopter was occupied with seven people - the Italian pilot, four Turkish and two Lebanese citizens.

On the way from Lucca in Tuscany to the northern Italian region of Veneto, it disappeared from the radar without a trace on Thursday.

It was initially unclear why the helicopter crashed.