Italian Dam Disaster Claims 222nd Victim
A young woman who survived for 18 hours under the mud and rubble of the Dolomite dam disaster died in a hospital Friday, raising to 222 the number of people confirmed dead, Italian television reported.
Rescue workers called it a miracle when they found Maria Assunta Cara, 24, alive last Saturday buried up to her neck in the ruins of the Miramonti Hotel at Stava where she had worked.
The woman, who was from Samassi on the island of Sardinia, was flown by helicopter to the Trent Hospital in the provincial capital, where she died in an intensive care unit.
The hotel was among scores of buildings engulfed by a wave of mud and water that swept through the Fiemme Valley when the earthen wall of a mining dam collapsed last Friday.
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