The civil protection department has
put parts of Veneto on red alert for extreme weather on
Wednesday as a wave of torrential rain and powerful winds
continues to batter much of Italy.
Other parts of Veneto and of Emilia-Romagna are on orange alert,
the second-highest level, due to the weather front, which has
also brought heavy snowfall to areas at altitude.
Services on the Milan-Venice railway between Vicenza and Padua
remained suspended on Wednesday after being halted on Tuesday
due to the risk of floods and mudslides.
Schools in Vicenza are closed on Wednesday as a precaution.
There have been landslides in Liguria, including one that cut
off connections to around 1,000 people in the village of Pieve
Ligure on the outskirts of Genoa on Tuesday.
The heavy rainfall has lifted the level of many rivers, with
some dangerously close to breaking their banks.
The River Arno is among those that are being monitored closely.
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