Italian Civil Protection authorities said nearly eight inches of rain fell in a three-hour period, from the city of Livorno on the coast to the inland valley of Mugello, and caused riverbanks to overflow.
Five people have died after record-breaking rainfall produced floods in parts of Tuscany as Storm Ciaran pushed into Italy. Residents were trapped in their homes, hospitals inundated and cars overturned in the deluge. It means 12 people have now died as a result of the storm in western Europe. Videos showed at least a dozen cars getting pushed down a flooded road.
Ciaran left at least seven people dead as it swept across Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany on Thursday. The storm devastated homes, caused travel mayhem and cut power to a vast number of people. Read more on this story:Ground saturated - and another storm is on the wayStorm-hit residents say impact worse than Great Storm As the storm moved on, it left hospitals flooded in Italy's Pisa and Mugello.
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