Harrowing moment three friends are filmed hugging each other before being swept away in flash floods in Italy

This is the tragic infinitesimal 3 friends were seen hugging each different seconds earlier being swept distant during a flash flood successful Italy. 

The heartbreaking footage posted connected X shows Patrizia Cormos, 20, her person Bianca Doros, 23, and her fellow Cristian Molnar, 25, lasting thigh heavy successful a churning river.

They were past seen live connected Friday erstwhile they took a locomotion on the Natisone River, Udine successful the Friuli region.

But the h2o surged to unsafe levels aft days of dense rainfall and the radical were caught stranded connected a tiny pebble land successful the mediate of the river, clutching each different to effort and halt themselves from being swept away.

The main of the provincial firefighters successful Udinehe, Giorgio Basile, told The Telegraph helium threw them a enactment successful a hopeless effort to rescue the group.

But tragically they were 'swallowed up by the flood waters' arsenic helium watched and helium saw them 'disappear'.

Today, 2 bodies, believed to beryllium Ms Cormos and Ms Doros, were discovered 1km from the spot. The hunt is inactive continuing for Mr Molnar, with the occurrence work vowing: 'We won't halt until we find the 3rd missing person.'

One of the women made an exigency telephone to constabulary astatine 1.35pm connected Friday and firefighters rapidly arrived.

A firefighter told them to instrumentality unneurotic from a adjacent span and they clutched each different for stability.

One firefighter told the terrified friends: 'Stay together, stitchery together, hug each other.' 

But is heard aboriginal saying successful dread: 'Oh nary - ohio my god.' 

Tragically they were incapable to cling connected and were swept distant arsenic the horrified exigency services watched.

The friends had driven to Premariacco Beach adjacent Udine and walked down to the river. 

Ms Doros was from Romania and was visiting household successful Italy erstwhile the calamity unfolded with her boyfriend, who is besides Romanian.

Ms Cormos, who was a pupil astatine the Academy of Fine Arts successful Udine, had asked her parent if she could spell connected the travel aft finishing an exam.

Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera quoted her arsenic saying she had asked her girl 'not to spell due to the fact that she was tired'.

But she had replied to accidental they were 'just  going to bent retired for a spot and instrumentality immoderate photos'.

'Come connected mum, don't beryllium angry', she had said. 

Emergency workers person been utilizing drones, boats and divers to hunt the stream since Friday. 

A handbag of 1 of the women was recovered containing the mobile that made their exigency SOS call.

Michele De Sabata, a section mayor, expressed his condolences for the 3 young friends trapped successful an 'unpredictable situation'.

He said locals cognize each excessively good however the stream tin 'change quickly' and the 'three kids arrived erstwhile it was sunny, they couldn't person known what was astir to happen'.

'It lone took minutes', helium said.

In the past fewer weeks, storms and dense rainfall person near galore parts of bluish Italy underwater.

Emergency services utilized dinghies to rescue radical from their homes and galore cars were near submerged connected the roads.

The politician of the Veneto portion described the upwind arsenic being a 'water bomb'.

In the fashionable tourer destination metropolis of Milan was near flooded aft 2 rivers burst their banks, disrupting question services heavily.