Five people are dead after a
wave of extreme weather hit many parts of Italy on Sunday,
battering the south especially hard.
Strong winds and torrential rain caused rivers to break
their banks and knocked down trees. +
The bad weather is expected to continue on Monday, with
the regions of Liguria, Lombardia, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia
Giulia, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Sardinia, Umbria, Lazio,
Abruzzo and Molise on storm alert and schools in many areas
closed.
Rocco Montorro, a 51-year-old farmer, was killed when a
huge eucalyptus tipped over by the wind crushed his car in
Candinoni, near Gioia Tauro. Two other people died in similar
circumstances in the province of Caserta.
A 50-year-old man drowned after slipping into the River
Tione in the province of Verona. Another person died when their
car was swept into a river at Sant' Angelo in Pontano, in the
province of Macerata.
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