2023-05-18 17:47:46
The floods which hit Emilia-Romagna, in central Italy, on Wednesday killed at least eleven people, two new bodies having been found on Thursday (May 18th).
Two officials from the police headquarters and the municipality of Ravenna confirmed to Agence France-Presse these two deaths, the media explaining that they are a couple of farmers aged over 70, found dead in their flooded apartment. The previous toll reported nine deaths.
About twenty rivers have left their bed in the plains of this region of 4.5 million inhabitants, popular with tourists for its historic cities such as Parma and Ravenna, its green landscapes, its gastronomy and its Adriatic coast. More than 10,000 residents had to leave their homes.
Large agricultural areas submerged under water
Italy is experiencing a particularly rainy and cool month of May, but a veritable deluge has hit Emilia-Romagna over the past few days: huge agricultural areas have been submerged under water, ravaging cereal fields, market gardens, fodder for livestock. Entire villages were washed away by the muddy floods, bridges collapsed and four hundred roads collapsed, landslides also dug the relief.
Locally, the equivalent of six months of precipitation fell in a few hours. The damage would be counted in billions of euros, to which are added an estimated two billion after the floods which have already hit the region at the beginning of the month.
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