The remains of two World War One soldiers, trapped under a mountain glacier in the Italian Alps for more than a century, have emerged after the summer heat thawed the ice. The discovery was made last week by a hiker on Marmolada, the highest mountain in the Dolomites, in the north Italian region of Trentino Alto Adige.

Carabinieri police in Trento said that the remains - found at an altitude of 2,700 metres in the Forcella Serauta area - were identified thanks to the soldiers' army dog tags. The infantrymen were part of the Como Brigade which engaged in the so-called White War, fought between Italian and Austro-Hungarian troops in the high-altitude Alpine sector of the Italian front between 1915 and 1918.