Eight Italian regions have been put on alert due to a wave a bad weather than claimed one life at the weekend.
A French tourist drowned when his yacht capsized off Sardinia in rough waters on Sunday. The regions on alert are Liguria, Piedmont, Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio. Heavy rain and strong winds had made it necessary to halt ferry services between mainland Sicily and the Aeolian Islands, although these have now resumed.
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