AAt least seven people were killed in violent weather that hit central Italy on the night of Thursday September 15 to Friday September 16, flooding streets and homes, civil protection said. “We have, according to the local prefecture, a provisional toll of seven dead. The seventh body has just been found,” the spokesperson for Fabrizio Curcio, head of Italian civil protection, told Agence France-Presse, confirming information from the Italian media.
Three other people are also missing, including a six-year-old child who was with his mother in the car. The latter was saved by firefighters, but the force of the water current carried her child away, according to the Time.news agency. The most affected region is the province of Ancona, a port on the Adriatic Sea, but bad weather has also hit the neighboring region, Umbria.
In the province of Ancona, many areas have been without electricity and without telephone lines and schools will be closed on Friday in the most affected localities. According to Courier of the greenhouseabout 400 mm of rain fell Thursday evening in two hours, an amount that normally falls in six months in this area.
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