Italian authorities said in the morning that thirteen people were missing on Saturday morning after a landslide due to heavy rains on the Italian island of Ischia, off Naples.
Around noon, they announced that this disaster had killed eight people.
Other people are still being sought.
According to Italian news agencies ANSA and AGI, the landslide occurred in the town of Casamicciola Terme, in the north of the island, and "engulfed a house" and dragged several cars into the sea, said the fire department, stating that they were looking for the missing.
Residents urged to stay at home
A car swept into the sea had two people on board, but they were rescued, firefighters said.
The local authorities have called on the inhabitants of the island to stay at home, so as not to interfere with the rescue operations.
Casamicciola Terme, a spa resort with 8,000 inhabitants in winter, suffered an earthquake in 2017 that killed two people.
It had, however, been completely destroyed by a much more powerful earthquake at the end of the 19th century.
