Italy: the toll of storms reaches 11 people while Piazza San Marco in Venice is flooded with tourists


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TThe death toll after the violent storms in Italy has been raised to eleven, civil protection authorities said Tuesday, while bad weather caused the closure of schools and the blocking of dozens of tourists in the country. the north of the country.

With fierce storms hitting the country, winds have reached up to 200 km / h in some areas, flushing trees and causing floods.

Most deaths are due to trees felled on cars and pedestrians. Among the victims also featured a woman buried in the mud when a landslide had invaded her home near Trento, in northern Italy, and a man who had crashed against rocks during a windsurfing in Emilia-Romagna.

The other victims occurred in Naples, Liguria, Lazio and Veneto, where the authorities found a 61-year-old man whose body had been swept more than one kilometer from his car.

"It was the perfect storm during which the bad weather contributed to the situation in the sea and the winds," said the head of Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli.

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