Video: Farmhouse flattened as boulders hurtle down mountainside
A giant boulder destroyed a home in Italy, while another one missed it by inches.
Two massive boulders tore loose from an Italian mountainside before crushing one home and coming within feet of destroying a second.
Half of a farmhouse near Bolzano was destroyed, with the walls crumbled to dust and the roof in splinters. A car was badly damaged and a tractor crushed.
Amazingly, the tenants on the Freisinger Hof vineyard estate, near Trento in northern Italy, escaped injury.
"They got away with a bad fright," said Von Hohenbuhel, who is the delegate charged with overseeing the estate.
A total of four hectares of vines were flattened during the rock fall. "It is too early to say the exact costs of the damage, but it runs into hundreds of thousands of euros," Mr Hohenbuhel said.
