Italian authorities found seven bodies on Saturday after a helicopter crashed on Mount Cusna in the northern Apennines on Thursday.

The Italian authorities had found five bodies this Saturday and were looking for two other missing persons, but their lifeless bodies were also found hours later.

The seven were on board the helicopter that crashed, as reported by Corriere della Sera, they are the Italian pilot Corrado Levorin and six businessmen, four Turks -Kenar Serhat, Cez Arif, Ilker Ucar, Altug Bulent Erbil- and two Lebanese-Chadi Kreidy e Tarek Tayah-, who had traveled to Italy to learn about the activity of Italian companies in the north of the country, local media reported.

The helicopter had taken off on Thursday from the town of Lucca and was heading to the Treviso area when it lost control in the Apennines, probably due to a strong storm, according to the Italian authorities.

A hiker was the one who sounded the alarm to the rescue teams when he found the remains of the crashed device, the same sources stress.