The cemetery is located on the cliff of the coastal town of Camogli, about twenty kilometers from Genoa, and was affected by a landslide that has caused the collapse.
Part of a cemetery located on a cliff in the Italian region of Liguria (northwest) has collapsed due to a landslide, losing dozens of coffins that ended up in the sea, confirmed today the fire brigade.
No one has been involved in these incidents, according to the same source.
The cemetery is located on the cliff of the coastal town of Camogli, about twenty kilometers from Genoa, and was affected by a landslide that has caused the collapse of one of its areas with dovecotes.
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In this way the niches sank tens of meters to the rocks of the shore and numerous coffins have ended up in the sea.
A team of firefighters has already begun work to secure the site and recover the graves, which will have to be identified.
Those in charge of sounding the alarm have been the employees who were restoring some pantheons and who witnessed live the collapse of part of the cemetery, recording it with their mobile phones.
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Workers narrate in the recordings, broadcast by local media, how the ground began to vibrate and immediately before their own eyes a part of the cemetery began to crack and ended up sinking to the beach.
The cemetery of Camogli is one of the most appreciated of the place by the zone in which it is, in the tourist “riviera” Italian in front of the Ligurian sea.