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Storms Lash Northern Italy: Landslides, Floods and Ongoing Search for Two Missing

Officials warn of worsening conditions as Venice raises MOSE barriers.

Overview

  • A pre-dawn mudslide struck a house near Cormons in Gorizia province, leaving a 35-year-old German man and an older woman missing, while one survivor was hospitalized with a leg fracture.
  • Firefighters in Udine reported about 200 emergency callouts since Sunday evening, with rescues from flooded homes and vehicles across Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
  • Venice activated its movable flood defenses as a Sirocco-driven tide reached roughly 110 centimeters above average, with barriers expected to remain raised as heavy rain persists.
  • In Liguria, a descending fall-wind west of Genoa overturned vans and uprooted trees, and a retaining wall collapse in Pegli sent mud onto a road and swept parked cars away without injuries.
  • Authorities kept high-level storm warnings in place for Liguria, Tuscany and parts of Friuli, with forecasters flagging further rain and a cold front that will lower Alpine snow levels.