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18 people died in Italy while picking mushrooms

Updated on: 30 August,2010 11:43 AM IST  | 
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As many as 18 people died while picking mushrooms in Italy in little more than a week. The deaths took place after victims fell into crevasses and deep gorges.

18 people died in Italy while picking mushrooms

As many as 18 people died while picking mushrooms in Italy in little more than a week. The deaths took place after victims fell into crevasses and deep gorges.


A rich mushroom harvest in the Alpine valleys of northern Italy had led to people making a beeline for the woods and forests to look for succulent funghi.


Many, who were unfit and ill-equipped, ventured into remote areas without proper equipment.


Daily Telegraph Monday reported that those who died either fell into rocky crevasses and gorges or met with similar physical mishaps.

Marco Biasoni, a mountain rescuer, told Corriere della Sera: "Lots of people go to areas which are easy to access, but there are always a few people who want to search out remote bits of woodland which no one else knows."

Collecting wild mushrooms is a popular pastime in Italy.

Seven of the deaths were reported from the Lombardy region while other people were killed in Piedmont, on the border with France, and Trentino-Alto Adige, abutting Austria.

In the latest case, a woman died after she fell 40 metres down a steep rocky slope in a forest near the town of Sondrio.

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