Around 900 people have had to be
evacuated from their homes, trains have been suspended in some
areas and the emergency room of Riccione's Ceccarini hospital
was flooded on Tuesday as a fresh wave of torrential rain
battered Italy, especially the northeastern region of
Emilia-Romagna and other parts of the Adriatic coast.
Over 500 of the people evacuated from their homes were in the
province of Ravenna, whole another 200 were in the province of
Bologna, with the rest being moved in other parts of
Emilia-Romagna, the regional government said.
Around 900 civil protection volunteers are helping with the
emergency effort, including many drafted in from neighbouring
regions.
Rail operator RFI said that services on the Bologna-Rimini,
Forlì-Rimini, Ferrara-Rimini and Ravenna-Rimini lines had to be
suspended because of the extreme weather.
In Marche, there was widespread flooding in Pesaro and the
Senigallia council told people in the area of the Misa river to
move to the upper floors of buildings.
The fresh wave of extreme weather comes after Emilia Romagna was
hit by storms that claimed two lives at the start of the month.
Scientists say that extreme weather events like heat waves,
supercharged storms, flooding and droughts are becoming more
frequent and more intense because of climate change caused by
human greenhouse-gas emissions.
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