Flash floods triggered by heavy rain have swept through towns in a hilly central Italy.
This picture released by the Italian firefighters shows an aerial view of the Senigallia coast after floods hit Marche region, central-east Italy, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Floodwaters triggered by heavy rainfall swept through several towns in the hilly region of Marche, central-east Italy early Friday, leaving 10 people dead and several missing, state radio said.
He said the overnight flooding left the town's 1,300 residents without drinking water. A mother and her young daughter were missing after trying to escape the floods, Pasqualini told the Italian news agency ANSA. Elsewhere in town, a boy was swept away from the arms of his mother, who was rescued. “It was an extreme event, more than an exceptional one,″ climatologist Massimiliano Fazzini told Italian state TV. He said, based on his calculations, the amount of rain that fell, concentrated over four hours that included an especially heavy 15-minute period, was the most in hundreds of years.
In the town of Ostra, a father and his adult son were found dead in their building's flooded garage where they had gone to try to get their car out, and another man who tried to remove his motorcycle from a garage also perished, state TV said. Elsewhere, a man was found dead in his car. Some of the worst flooding hit the town of Senigallia, where the River Misa overflowed its banks. Hamlets in the hills near the Renaissance tourist town of Urbino were also inundated when fast-moving rivers of water, mud and debris rushed through the streets.
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