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		</div><p>Rescuers were digging through mud for a second day on Sunday in the search for people lost in an enormous landslide on the Italian resort island of Ischia.</p>
<p>One body was recovered on Saturday and about a dozen people, including children, were reported missing in the port town of Casamicciola, feared buried under mud and debris that firefighters said was 20ft (6m) deep in some places.</p>
<p>Small bulldozers were being used to clear debris, and Italian media said digging was continuing by hand in some places and that teams of divers had been brought in.</p>
<p>Giacomo Pascale, the mayor of the neighbouring town of Lacco Ameno, told RAI state TV: “We are continuing the search with our hearts broken, because among the missing are also minors.”</p>
<p>The massive landslide before dawn on Saturday was triggered by exceptional rainfall, and sent a mass of mud and debris hurtling down a mountainside towards the port of Casamicciola, collapsing buildings and sweeping vehicles into the sea.</p>
<p>By Sunday, 164 people had been left homeless.</p>
<p>One widely circulated video showed a man, covered with mud, clinging to a shutter, chest-deep in muddy water.</p>
<p>The island received 126mm (nearly 5in) of rain in six hours, the heaviest rainfall in 20 years, according to officials.</p>
<p>Experts said the disaster was exacerbated by building in areas of high risk on the mountainous island.</p>
<p>Geologist Riccardo Caniparoli told RAI: “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.”</p>
<p>He added: “There are norms and laws that were not respected.”</p>
<p>Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni convened a Cabinet meeting for later on Sunday to declare a state of emergency on the island.</p>
<p>“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,” she said in a statement.</p>
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