(MENAFN- QNA) Two people died Sunday and four were injured when a house was destroyed by a landslide in the Swiss city of Lugano, police said.
Following heavy rainfalls in the southern canton of Ticino, the landslide hit a three-story residential building early in the morning.
According to German press agency (dpa), rescue workers and their dogs who searched the rubble found the dead 38-year-old and 34-year-old women in the rubble, as well as an injured 44-year-old man from Italy, whom police said was expected to survive.
Three others escaped from the building with only minor injuries.
Several landslides swept down rain-drenched slopes in the canton of Ticino overnight. Some roads were under water and had to be closed when Lake Lugano overflowed.
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