Firefighters on Thursday
recovered the body of a person found dead near a mill that had
been flooded as a result of the wave of storms and torrential
rain that has hit many parts of Italy this week.
The body was found at Crema, near the northern city of
Cremona, bringing the death toll of this week's extreme weather
in Italy to five.
On Wednesday a 70-year-old man drowned after falling into
Lake Maggiore, which has overflowed due to torrential rains,
while trying to secure a boat.
Another man was killed in a landslide in the town of
Crevacuore, near the city of Biella, in the northern Piedmont
region.
An elderly couple was killed Tuesday when a mudslide
overran their home in Leivi near Genoa.
Prosecutors have opened manslaughter probes into both the
Crevacuore and Leivi deaths.
Meanwhile weather conditions improved in the northwestern
region of Piedmont which, together with its southern neighbour
Liguria has borne the brunt of the recent bad weather.
There, the level of Lake Orta had reportedly stopped
rising, as had that of Lake Maggiore in the northern Lombardy
region.
In Milan the level of the Seveso fell a day after the river
burst its banks, flooding roads and the city's Garibaldi
station.
However the level of the river Lambro, which also passes
through the Lombard capital, remained high.
Also on Thursday, towns and cities in the Emilia Romagna
provinces of Parma and Reggio Emilia were on alert as the Po
reached flood level.
As well, some 30 families living in the Piedmont village of
Ribordone near Ivrea were isolated due to a landslide.
Meteorologists said there would be a let-up in the bad
weather throughout Italy on Friday followed by fresh heavy
rainfall especially in Liguria, Piedmont, the Alps and Tuscany
over the weekend.
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