At least eight people, including a newborn boy and a five-year-old girl, have died after a landslide hit a popular holiday island in Italy.
Search teams on the island of Ischia, off the coast of Naples in southern Italy, recovered the bodies from mud and debris after a landslide struck the town of Casamicciola before dawn on Saturday.
The landslide collapsed buildings and pushed vehicles into the sea, forcing 230 people to relocate.
The youngest victim, little Giovangiuseppe, was born on November 4 and was just three weeks old, Italian media reported.
The baby boy's parents, a five-year-old girl and her 11-year-old brother, a 31-year-old island resident, an elderly woman and a 58-year-old Bulgarian woman who was due to get her Italian citizenship were also confirmed dead.
The Naples prefect, Claudio Palomba, confirmed that four people remained missing and are feared buried under the debris.
Italian firefighters said a plumber from the Island was miraculously saved after ingesting a lot of mud, reports Rai News.
A clip shared on the news site shows the man covered in mud as firefighters tell him: "Don't move, we are coming, we will be there in two minutes."
Luca Cari, a spokesman for Italian firefighters, told RAI state TV: "Mud and water tend to fill every space.
"Our teams are searching with hope, even if it is very difficult.
"Our biggest hope is that people identified as missing have found refuge with relatives and friends and have not advised of their position."
One of the victims, Eleonora Sirabella, 31, had desperately called her father for help when she saw tonnes of earth and rubble sliding from the hills above her.
But even though he was just 100 metres (328 feet) from her, he was unable to reach her in time to save her, according to Italian media.
Tragic Eleonora's body was reportedly identified in the Municipality of Lacco Ameno at around 10pm on Saturday.
Local media say she was living in a house in the Casamicciola Terme area, right in the path of the landslide.
Her father arrived in the area with his son but they were stopped from trying to get to her through the massive amounts of unstable mud and debris.
Pope Francis expressed his closeness to the people of Ischia during the traditional Sunday blessing in St Peter's Square, saying: "I am praying for the victims, for those who are suffering and for those who are involved in the rescue."
One family escaped a home on the mountainside that appeared on Sunday to teeter over a precipice, daily newspaper Corriere Della Sera reported.
The island received nearly five inches of rain in six hours, the heaviest rainfall in 20 years, according to officials.
Experts said the disaster was exacerbated by building in areas of high risk on the mountainous island, which is also in a seismically active zone.
Two people were killed in 2017 when a 4.0-magnitude quake struck Casamicciola and Lacco Ameno.
"There is territory that cannot be occupied. You cannot change the use of a zone where there is water. The course of the water created this disaster," geologist Riccardo Caniparoli told RAI.
"There are norms and laws that were not respected."
Vincenzo De Luca, president of the Campagna region where Ischia is located, said houses in areas at risk must be demolished, suggesting they had been built without necessary permits.
"People need to understand that you cannot live in some areas. There is no such thing as the necessity (to build) illegally," Mr De Luca told RAI.
"Buildings in fragile zones should be demolished."
The Italian government declared a state of emergency for the island during an urgent Cabinet meeting on Sunday, earmarking two million euros for the rescue and to restore public services.
"The government expresses its closeness to the citizens, mayors and towns of the island of Ischia, and thanks the rescue workers searching for the victims," Premier Giorgia Meloni said.
