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Nine people died in Italy because of the storm of strong winds and torrential rains that keeps alerting several regions of the country after the fall of trees and the overflow of some rivers, according to Italian media.
During the last hours, we found the bodies of a woman who had drowned while overflowing Meladrio torrent in the town of Dimaro, in the Trentino region (north), that of one navigator in Catanzaro (south) and that of a man in San Giovanni in Marignano, in Rimini (center).
A hail storm hits the Italian capital
During the day yesterday, six people lost their lives, mainly because of falling trees.
In the municipality of Castrocielo, in the province of Frosinone (central Italy), two people lost their lives when a tree fell on the car they were traveling in, just as a third died in Terracina, while others died two were seriously injured.
Tree falls by car in Italy. (EFE)
One more died in Albisola, Savona (north), hit by a wind-driven object.
Another tree killed one person in the province of Caserta, near Naples (southern Italy), and another in the province of Belluno, in Veneto (northeast).
The emergency continues in six regions still on red alert: Lombardy, Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Liguria and Trentino Alto Adige (north) and Abruzzo (center) and the orange alert is continues in most of the country and the island. south of Sicily.
The situation is particularly critical in Liguria, where around 20 000 people are without electricity and in Genoa, the airport has been closed since yesterday by strong winds.
Schools are still closed in many cities, including Venice, Genoa, Naples and Rome.
Six people killed by floods in Venice
In the Italian capital, firefighters had to intervene in 100 emergencies, including the fall of branches and trees.
In Venice, the tide has reached 156 centimeters above sea level, the highest since 2008, which caused the "high tide", the flooding of its streets and the Plaza de San Marcos, as well than the suspension of the urban public transport network, the "vaporetti".
The forecast for today should start to lower the tide in Venice and be 130 centimeters.
With information from EFE
AAE
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