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MILAN (Reuters) – At least 12 people have been killed by storms on the island of Sicily, bringing to 29 the total number of casualties of the storms that swept Italy, officials said on Sunday. .
Torrential rains caused landslides and floods that killed 10 people in the region around Palermo, a spokesman for the capital's Sicilian capital said on Sunday.
"There are still people missing," he added.
Two other casualties occurred in the area around the Sicilian town of Agrigento when the car they were in was hit by a landslide, another official said.
The Italian Civil Protection Agency said that the number of deaths caused by the wave of bad weather set at 17, not counting the deaths in Sicily.
In a tweet Sunday, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced that he was going to Sicily, adding that he was also in constant contact with officials to deal with the dramatic situation in the north of the country.
Heavy rains and stormy winds have hit Italy for several days, uprooting millions of trees and cutting villages and roads.
The most serious damage was recorded in the northern regions of Trentino and Veneto.
Saturday, the governor of Veneto, Luca Zaia, said that the damage caused by the storm in the region amounted to at least one billion euros.
(Stephen Jewkes report, edited by Catherine Evans)
