Three young friends, including a couple, were filmed in a heartbreaking final embrace before they were swept away by flash floods in northern Italy.
Patrizia Cormos, 20, her friend Bianca Doros, 23, and her boyfriend Cristian Molnar, 25, had decided to take a stroll along the Natisone River near Udine in the northern Friuli region when the river surged to dangerous levels after days of torrential rain.
The two women and man, all aged in their 20s, were last seen alive on Friday standing thigh deep in the swirling river water on a tiny island they walked to in the middle of the river.
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why can't they swim?
Αυτός που τράβηξε το βιντεο ή τις φωτογραφίες γιατί δεν βοήθησε να σωθούν; θα τρελαθούμε….
Natural selection. Instead of hugging I would be doing everything possible to SURVIVE.
Dozens died in Brazil in the same circumstance. But they worth less. Ty Telegraph.
ขนาดมีเฮลิคอปเตอร์ยังช่วยไม่ได้
Is this part of c3?
Enough hugging, get out of there.
Why would they walk to an island in the middle of the river instead of going to the bank at the first place?
if they called for help and they were told to "stay put", then that's another story
Torrential rains in the region and they go take a stroll along the riverbed. Darwin's very definition of natural selection. Zero sympathy.
My deepest condolences~~after looking at this video, they should have fought to survive. The video shows the water in a calm state, and close the shoreline….was their being there intentional??
Chemtrails are not a conspiracy theory
😂😂😂 why were they just standing there and not trying to run for their lives.
R.I.P to my Romanian fellows😢😢😢.. Horrible 😭
ok, let me get this straight, water was not that deep yet there was someone filming and not helping out. Is it me or humanity gone mad?
Good luck with Italian rescue they take their sweet azz time no rush they were doomed.
Should at least try to cross the river, considering that the water level seems way below their knee level. The moment they got tgt for a group hug shows that they have given up. If u asked me, it’s too early to give up, I would have tried to fight through the current while water level still low
So sad 😭 heartbreaking. God take them to heaven🙏🏽 may they rest in peace
Perché i pompieri non si sono calmati con le corde a salvarli invece di solo buttagliele????
They had eachother at the end. Thats more than alot of can ask for. Im sorry for your losses.
Morons completely avoidable
How sad
If there is no bread, eat cakes and if there is no water, drink lemonade or make a cup of tea
I feel so bad for them. Knowing they were going to die and giving eachother hugs, made my eyes start leaking. 😔
Darwin prize?
Ore 13.29: Patrizia fa la prima delle 4 chiamate al 112
Ore 13,35: i tre ragazzi (su una collinetta di ghiaia circondata dall’acqua) vengono notati da un autista di uno scuolabus sul ponte Romano. Si ferma e chiama i carabinieri
Ore 13,47: Patrizia fa l'ultima telefonata al 112
Ore 14,02: il tentativo disperato e vano dei VVFF di recuperare i ragazzi lanciando corde da una gru. Cristian la manca di poco, le ragazze non riescono ad avvicinarsi (e spariscono nella corrente)
Alle ore 14,02 non era ancora arrivato l'elicottero partito da Campoformido (UD) distante circa 8 minuti di volo, e tanto meno quello partito da Venezia, distante oltre 30 minuti di volo.
Alcune considerazioni fattuali:
• I VVFF sono arrivati tempestivamente (certamente prima delle 14.00 quando i ragazzi erano ancora vivi e salvabili) ma con attrezzature inadeguate che non hanno consentito il loro salvataggio
• alle richieste di soccorso delle 13,35 o, meglio, delle 13,29 AVREBBE DOVUTO PARTIRE IMMEDIATAMENTE e PRIORITARIAMENTE l'elicottero da Campoformido, che sarebbe arrivato al più tardi sulla verticale dei ragazzi entro 12/15 minuti (8 di volo + allerta equipaggio + decollo). Cioè entro le 13,50 (quando i ragazzi erano ancora vivi e abbracciati) e avrebbero avuto a disposizione circa 10 minuti per sollevarli con le attrezzature di bordo (come si fa in caso di soccorso alpino), e salvarli prima che sparissero nei vortici (ore 14,02).
• La richiesta dell'elicottero da Venezia? Incomprensibile e tragicamente inutile
Morale: I ragazzi impreparati e imprudenti si sono posti in una situazione di pericolo, ma i soccorsi inadeguati e male coordinati ne hanno impedito il salvataggio
This is terrible but I find it hard to imagine how they could get themselves in such a position. They had safely crossed over to the large gravel island which was quite big. How did they end up surrounded by all that water? Surely it must have taken a few minutes at least. Why didn't they try to get back safely the way they came? Did they just panic and freeze? I've seen a photo of the gravel island and it doesn't seem that far back to banks. Then I wonder if one of them couldn't swim. Maybe they just stayed there in the hope that they would be rescued. This is such an awful thing to have happened.
So young still..😢
Who filmed them?
Is it possible to record a video but not help? bunch of cowards…
Did they have a nice swim?
How about getting out of the water?
ağır dram, Allah rahmet eylesin
Wow. Can’t be that dumb ?
the camera man: 📷😀👍
Hanno trovato ole due ragazze ma il ragazzo ancora no😢😊