2023-05-18 20:42:55
The floods also affect the Balkan area
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Sad balance of the floods in Italy. The rescue teams have located five corpses on Thursday afternoon and the number of fatalities caused by the severe floods in the region of Emilia-Romagna (north-east) has already risen to at least 14 people, while they continue to look for missing, so it is not ruled out that the balance end of victims grow even more. The last five bodies were located near the city of Ravenna, on the Adriatic coast, and correspond, according to local media, to elderly people who could not leave their homes before the water left them completely flooded .
The bodies of a 73-year-old man and his 71-year-old wife were found in their Russi flat in the early afternoon after the son alerted emergency crews that he had lost contact with them . Later, another elderly couple were identified who were prostrated in their home in Sant’Agata sul Santerno and another elderly man in Castel Bolognese who decided not to leave their home when an evacuation was announced of emergency Some media are talking about a 14th fatality, which would correspond to a citizen who disappeared in Boncellino during the floods, which have caused more than 20,000 evacuees, as well as enormous damage that has affected the electric, telephone lines and viability in the area.
The weather forecast it improved during the day, although it could rain again during the weekend, and schools in cities such as Bologna and Casalecchio will open although the State of Emergency remains declared throughout the region. The floods in Emilia-Romagna have caused damage “for several billion euros”, assured the president of this region of north-eastern Italy, Stefano Bonacciniwho calculated that six months’ worth of rain has fallen in 36 hours. The floods have also affected the Balkan countries.
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“The 30 million allocated by the Government are welcome and I appreciate that they are made available immediately, but here we are talking about billions of euros in damages just for the tragedy of May 2 and 3, when four months’ water went fall in 36 hours, while yesterday and the day before yesterday in 36 hours the water of six months did it”, he explained to the Italian public television RAI. In the provinces of Forlí, Ravena, Cesena, Ravena there are entire towns under water, a situation that may worsen in the coming hours, as the level of almost all rivers continues to be above the emergency threshold. Also, more than 5,000 agricultural holdings are denied, with drowned animals and tens of thousands of hectares under water, reported Coldiretti, Italy’s largest agricultural and livestock association.
The Government, which has convened a Extraordinary Council of Ministers on Tuesday coming, he announced that he will allocate 20 million, which will add to the 10 million already approved a couple of weeks ago when the region suffered another flood, for the first emergencies, in addition to suspending tax obligations and mortgages for a while.
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