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Mon 10 Oct 2009Illegality blamed as 22 die in Italian mudslide
TWENTY TWO people have died, 40 are still missing and a further 95 have been hospitalised following the mudslide which devastated three small villages just south of the Sicilian port of Messina, Sicily last Friday.
Even as prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was confirming these figures in a news conference held after he had visited the afflicted areas yesterday, environmentalists and media commentators were asking just how such a thoroughly predictable tragedy could happen yet again in today’s Italy.
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