At least 11 hikers were killed when they were swept away by a flash flood that hit a narrow mountain gorge in Italy's Calabria region.

Five people were still missing, but the total could be higher because some visitors had not entered the tourist site with official guides or registered.
The victims were "catapulted out like bullets" when a raging white-water creek swelled suddenly after heavy rain upstream and washed them away over rocks, an official said.
Some were found two miles down the valley after they were carried away by fast-moving water that flooded the Raganello gorge in southern Italy.

Twenty-three people were rescued and about a dozen others were hospitalised following Monday's tragedy, but dangerous conditions hampered the effort.
Carlo Tansi, head of the civil protection department in Calabria, said: "This gorge filled up with water in a really short space of time and these people were catapulted out like bullets.
"They ended up some three kilometres (two miles) down the valleys."

Rescue squads worked through the night with spotlights, and helicopters took off at first light on Tuesday to look for survivors.
Teams had to use ropes to descend the sides of the mountain to reach the site, and they carried victims out of the gorge on stretchers.
Mr Tansi told Reuters that the gorge was only about four metres (13ft) wide in some places, increasing the speed of the water and making the rescue more difficult.

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