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Severe Storms Lash Northern Italy as Mudslides Flatten Homes and Search Efforts Intensify

Unusually intense downpours triggered flooding, landslides, dangerous wind bursts across Liguria, Tuscany, Friuli.

Overview

  • Up to roughly 200 millimeters of rain fell in about twelve hours, inundating towns and saturating slopes across northern and central regions.
  • A mudslide in Brazzano di Cormons destroyed several houses; rescuers pulled one person out alive with a leg fracture and continued to search for two missing residents.
  • The missing include a German man in his 30s and an 83-year-old woman; BILD later reported the man's body was recovered, a development not widely confirmed elsewhere.
  • Emergency services logged around 200 interventions in the Friuli area as schools closed, evacuations expanded, and hundreds were rescued from rooftops in Versa.
  • Venice activated the MOSE flood barriers with water about 110 centimeters above normal, while officials kept high-level alerts in place as conditions were expected to ease after Tuesday.