More than 14 rivers across the country burst their banks after torrential rains, prompting the evacuation of thousands of people.
It’s been weeks since the Torrential rains they whip Italy, especially to the Emilia Romagna region, in the northeast of the country. The amount of water led to more than 10 rivers overflow across the country, inundating cities like Cesena, Faenza and Riccione, especially. The importance of the event made Formula 1 race canceled scheduled for this weekend.
The floods left at least eight deadseveral missing and about 13,000 people evacuated in the last hours. The president of the Emilia Romagna region announced that 3,000 inhabitants had to be evacuated in Bologna, 5,000 in Faenza and 5,000 in the Ravenna area, “but that the number is bound to increase”.
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While the Red alert, members of the three armed forces (700 firefighters, 115 police officers and 500 volunteers) are in the most affected areas to rescue people who were trapped in their homes. The authorities asked people to climb to the high roofs of the houses, so that the extraction process is easier.
Several sports centers were prepared for the evacuees and in the coming days the evacuations of people who had to take refuge on the upper floors or on the roofs of the buildings will continue. Schools and other activities are maintained closedand the transit is collapsed due to the flooding of train tracks, roads and highways, as well as the collapse of bridges, mud and avalanches.
In total they overflowed 14 rivers in the region and there is widespread flooding in 23 municipalities. There are reports of more than 250 ongoing instabilities, according to Civil Protection. In some areas it rained almost 300 millimeters in a few hours, in an area that was affected by heavy rains just fifteen days ago, which caused two deaths.
Source: Ambito
