Rigopiano avalanche; 29 people are killed when the Hotel Rigopiano is demolished by an avalanche, following a series of earthquakes in the Abruzzo region

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18. Jan. 2017

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42.43° N, 13.78° E

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Rigopiano avalanche; 29 people are killed when the Hotel Rigopiano is demolished by an avalanche, following a series of earthquakes in the Abruzzo region.

Platziert: coordinates of the event it links, Rigopiano avalanche.

2017 disaster in Italy

On the afternoon of 18 January 2017, an avalanche occurred on Gran Sasso d'Italia massif, one of the mountains above Rigopiano, impacting and destroying the four-star Hotel Rigopiano in Farindola, Abruzzo. The disaster killed 29 people and injured 11 others, making it the deadliest avalanche in Italy since the White Friday avalanches in 1916, and the deadliest in Europe since the Galtür avalanche in 1999.

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