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02-11-2014, 08:56 PM
Watch a devastating avalanche flatten a pine tree forest and narrowly miss an entire Italian village
Eerily slow-moving drift missed homes in Moso, commune in Passiria
The five minute long video filmed with a steady hand by a brave onlooker
Avalanche is believed to have been caused by recent heavy snowfall
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 17:18 GMT, 11 February 2014 | UPDATED: 19:09 GMT, 11 February 2014

The terrifying moment an avalanche gathers pace and narrowly misses a group of houses has been caught on camera.

The footage - taken in Italy's South Tyrol region - captures the ominous descent of the wave of heavy snow, crushing everything its pathway.

Fortunately, the eerily slow-moving drift narrowly missed homes in Moso, a commune in Passiria, by a matter of feet.

But pine trees and rocks were not so lucky.

The five minute long video - filmed with a steady hand by a brave onlooker - follows the avalanche as it slowly creeps down the mountainside.

However, in January two Italian skiers were killed in an avalanche in north-eastern Italy.
The accident took place in the Fiemme Valley, in the province of Trento - the same valley where six Russian tourists were killed a day earlier.

The two men who said to be local residents and were accomplished skiers.

Their bodies were found thanks to a special mountain beacon they had been carrying.


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