A roar and the landslide broke away from the mountain. A flow of mud and stones, after days of intense rain. THE boulders they hit the first tunnel where the railway line runs and then the vault of the Fiumelatte gallery, breaking through it. A passing car grazed by debris. Only by a lucky chance no one was injured.
The collapse on Friday morning, shortly after 10, between Lierna and Varennaalong the Lecco shore of the Lake Como. Interrupted there provincial 72 between Abbadia and Bellano and it was the circulation of trains was also suspended of the line Milan-Tirano between the stations of Lierna and Varenna. On site the firefighters with alpine and river speleo teams e the helicopter Dragon for flyover from above. Present the police and Rfi personnel.
«From the first surveys we have ascertained that about 500 cubic meters of material- explains the vice president of the Province of Lecco, Mattia Micheli, which has the delegation to the viability-. The material is poured on rockfall gallery, which has done its job discharging most of the debris into the lake. The pressure caused the vault to collapse.
