Italy remains in grips of severe weather

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 10 - Italy remained in the grips of bad weather on Sunday after strong winds and heavy rainfall on Saturday caused major disruptions in many parts of the country.
    The situation was particularly critical in northwestern coastal region of Liguria, where mudslides and flooding were reported in many places during the night and early on Sunday morning.
    In Genoa, ten elderly residents of a rest home in the Coronata district were evacuated and taken to hospital as a precautionary measure.
    Several roads and an underpass in the coastal city also had to be closed due to mudslides and flooding.
    Around a hundred people were left isolated in Molini di Triora near Imperia due to a landslide.
    Further north in neighbouring Piemonte, heavy snowfall above 1,000m caused electricity and telephone blackouts in several places, while roughly 30 roads had to be closed due to the risk of avalanches, landslides or flooding.
    In neighbouring Lombardy to the east, heavy snowfall was also reported in Valtellina and Valchiavenna in the province of Sondrio, while further south firefighters intervened 150 times in response to extreme weather, particularly in the provinces of Brescia, Milan, Cremona and Mantua.
    Further south in the capital Rome a tufa wall measuring about 25 metres in length collapsed in Via San Francesco di Sales, in the highly popular Trastevere area of Rome.
    Four parked cars were buried by the rubble but there were no reported injuries.
    Still further south in Campania there were disruptions to maritime connections with the islands of Procida and Ischia due to strong winds. (ANSA).