The last two bodies have been pulled from the wreckage of a hotel hit by an avalanche in central Italy last week, bringing the final number of dead to 29.

Everyone known to have been staying at the Hotel Rigopiano has now been accounted for following the discovery of the bodies of a man and a woman on Wednesday night.

Eleven people survived the disaster.

Most of those who died were found in what had been the hotel bar, Italian media has reported.

Following autopsies on the first six bodies, it has been confirmed that most victims died from physical trauma caused by the hotel's collapse, but there were also signs of hypothermia and asphyxiation.


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The avalanche on 18 January followed heavy snowstorms and a number of powerful earthquakes.

Italy's Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, told parliament that more than two metres of snow had fallen on the hotel within 72 hours.

It is estimated that the building was covered in more than 60,000 tonnes of snow, as well as rocks and uprooted trees.

The force of the impact has been calculated by police as the same as being hit by 4,000 fully-loaded lorries.

Footage from inside hotel hit by an avalanche

The first rescue crews did not reach the site for eight hours, having to travel on foot because the roads were impassable.

Mr Gentiloni said the initial rescue effort had been affected by delays and "malfunctioning" after the first alarms warning of the avalanche were brushed off by local authorities.

But while a criminal probe is underway, Mr Gentiloni said it was not the time to look for scapegoats.

The prosecutor in charge of a manslaughter investigation will consider whether environmental risks were properly evaluated when the hotel was built, and during a subsequent renovation.

In a separate incident, six people were killed after a rescue helicopter crashed in the same mountain range as the hotel earlier this week.

The helicopter had been sent to rescue an injured skier, but was not thought to be involved in the rescue operation at the Hotel Rigopiano.