A 50-year-old woman was killed
Monday after being hit by a slab of snow that fell off a roof,
dragging rocks down with it.
The victim named only as Novara-born N.O. who had just left
work at a nursing home, died of a fractured skull.
The incident in the Alpine village of Limone Piemonte near
the French border brought to six the death toll from the
consequences of a wave of extreme weather, which claimed five
lives on Sunday.
In the southern Calabria region, a 51-year-old farmer named
as Rocco Montorro was killed when the wind uprooted a huge
eucalyptus tree, which crushed his car in the town of Candinoni.
Two more people died in similar circumstances in the
province of Caserta in the Campania region, while near the city
of Verona to the north, a 50-year-old man drowned after slipping
into the River Tione.
Another person died when their car was swept into a river
at Sant'Angelo in Pontano in the Marche region.
On Monday, police investigating the disappearance of a
49-year-old Tunisian fisherman who went missing off Elba Island
on Saturday said he may have slipped and fallen into the water
due to the foul weather, which brought gale-force winds, high
seas, and storms to most of the peninsula throughout the
weekend.
Also on Monday, rescue workers were able to pull two
Slovakian skiers out alive after they were engulfed by a
100-meter-wide avalanche near the resort town of Canazei in the
Fassa Valley in the Dolomites in the northern region of
Trentino.
A third skier managed to haul himself out after being hit
by the wave of snow.
An Alpine Rescue squad also saved a 56-year-old Polish
truck driver, who had been trapped in snow for two nights near
the Piedmont city of Cuneo.
The regions of Abruzzo, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia
Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Molise, Tuscany, Sardinia and
Veneto were on storm alert throughout Monday, and schools in
many areas closed.
The Civil Protection Department has issued another weather
advisory for Tuesday, which is expected to bring fresh storms
and possible floods to many areas.
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