The first confirmed victim of the landslide is Eleonora Sirabella, 31 years old, originally from the Ischia town of Lacco Ameno.
Eleonora and her husband, Salvatore Impagliazzo, still missing,
lived in the upper part of Casamicciola, in the Rarone area, near the area where the landslide that swept everything started
.
Eleonora
had become aware of the imminent tragedy and had asked her father for help
, phoning him shortly before the river of mud overwhelmed her.
The man immediately went to the rescue with his son, but once he arrived he was blocked by the river of mud.
The
two tried several times to walk the few hundred meters that separated them from the young woman's home
, but they found themselves faced with a flow of mud and debris that prevented them from being able to reach it.
In the end they were dissuaded by the police, who meanwhile had arrived at the scene.
A few hours later, the rescue teams found the woman's body under one and a half meters of mud, which had been dragged for about a hundred meters to Piazza Maio.
She worked as a saleswoman, he worked on ships.
On social media, the moved memory of many friends and customers of the shop
where she worked
.
Many of her call her "an angel", she remembers her trait of goodness and meekness, the fact that she was particularly well liked by everyone.
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Eleonora Sirabella, who died in the Casamicciola landslide
Also in Rarone, in a house very close to that of Eleonora Sirabella and her husband, lives a family of five, who
have not given any news since yesterday morning
.
Gianluca Monti, Valentina Castagna, thirty years old, with three children, the youngest of whom is 6 years old.
She fears the worst.
Another of the
missing persons
is Nina Blagova, a new Italian citizen of Bulgarian origin.
She is 58 years old and just last Thursday she had received citizenship.