Heat alert in four Italian cities

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 17 - An orange heat alert, the second highest level, was issued Friday for Turin, Perugia, Florence and Brescia as Italy continues to bake in an unseasonably hot heat wave.
    Officials said the sticky 'afa' heat would make vulnerable categories like the elderly, the chronically ill, children and pregnant women have to take special care an stay indoors as much as possible.
    On Saturday only Turin will be on orange alert, while the Piedmont capital will be the only Italian city on red alert on Sunday.
    Italy's heat wave, with highs in the low 40s, is due to the return of the African anti-cyclone Scipio. (ANSA).