This is the tragic moment three friends are seen hugging each other seconds before being swept away by a flash flood in Italy.
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They were last seen alive on Friday while walking along the Natisone River, in Udine, in the Friuli region.
But the water rose to dangerous levels after days of heavy rain and the group was left stranded on a small pebble island in the middle of the river, clinging to each other to try to avoid being swept away.
This is the tragic moment three friends are seen hugging each other seconds before being swept away by a flash flood in Italy.
Daring image Patrizia Cormos, 20, Cristian Molnar, 25, and his girlfriend Bianca Doros, 23
The head of the Udinehe provincial firefighters, Giorgio Basile, said The Telegraph He threw a rope at them in a desperate attempt to rescue the group.
But, tragically, they were “swallowed by the flood waters” as he watched and saw them “disappear.”
Today, two bodies, believed to be Ms Cormos and Ms Doros, were discovered 1km from the site. The search for Mr Molnar continues and firefighters promise: “We won’t stop until we find the third missing person.”
One of the women made an emergency call to the police at 1.35pm on Friday and firefighters arrived quickly.
A firefighter told them to stick together from a nearby bridge and they hugged each other for stability.
A firefighter told the terrified friends: “Stay together, gather together, hug each other.”
But later he is heard saying with fear: “Oh, no, oh my God.”
They were last seen alive on Friday while walking along the Natisone River in Udine.
Tragically, they were unable to hold on and were swept away as horrified emergency services looked on.
The friends drove to Premariacco beach, near Udine, and walked to the river.
Mrs Doros was from Romania and was visiting her family in Italy when the tragedy unfolded with her boyfriend, who is also Romanian.
Mrs. Cormos, who was studying at the Udine Academy of Fine Arts, asked her mother if she could go on a trip after finishing an exam.
Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera quoted her as saying she had asked her daughter “not to go because she was tired.”
But she responded by saying they were “just going to hang out and take some photos.”
“Come on mom, don’t be mad,” he had told her.
Emergency workers have been using drones, boats and divers to search the river since Friday.
A city police officer helps a woman cross a street after part of the city was flooded due to persistent rain, in Milan, Italy, last month.
Firefighters use a boat to evacuate people after part of Milan was flooded on May 15
A handbag was recovered from one of the women containing the cell phone that made her emergency call.
Michele De Sabata, local mayor, expressed his condolences for the three young friends trapped in an “unpredictable situation.”
He said locals know very well how the river can “change quickly” and that “the three children arrived when it was sunny, they couldn’t know what was about to happen.”
“It only took a few minutes,” he said.
In recent weeks, storms and heavy rain have left many areas of northern Italy under water.
Emergency services used boats to rescue people from their homes and many cars were left submerged on roads.
The governor of the Veneto region described the weather as a “water bomb.”
In the popular tourist destination, the city of Milan was flooded after two rivers burst their banks, severely disrupting travel services.
