12 storm deaths in Sicily

(ANSA) - Palermo, November 12 - Thunderstorms caused 12 more storm deaths in Sicily at the weekend bringing to 32 the Italy death toll since the extreme weather started battering the country 10 days ago.
    Nine people from two families including two small children died in a deluge of water and mud when a river broke its banks at Casteldaccia in Sicily, local sources said.
    They were living in a building that had been built illegally, the sources said.
    Another three people weer killed across the southern Italian island at the weekend.
    There is an orange weather alert Monday in Veneto, Piedmont, Emilia Romagna and Lazio. Premier Giuseppe Conte announced one billion euros in funding to fix "hydrogeological instability" across the length and breadth of Italy.
    Interior Minister and League leader Matteo Salvini asked for 40 billion.
    Meanwhile the centre-left Democratic Party blamed many of the deaths on amnesties on illegal buildings over the years, some of them voted for by the League.
    Salvini retorted that "salon environmentalism" was to blame, preventing trees from being cut down and water courses altered to stave off risk.