Rome (EFE) northeast of Italy.
The torrential rains that hit a large part of Italy caused the overflow of several rivers as they passed through the cities of Cesena, Faenza and Riccione, which were completely flooded.
At the moment there are two dead people, a man who lived on the ground floor of a house in Cesena invaded by water from the nearby Montone river and in Ronta di Cesena, a 70-year-old man was found dead and his wife is still missing.
While at least four other people were reported missing this morning by rescue teams in the Forlì area.
Nearly a thousand people have had to be evacuated and transferred to some sports centers prepared for the emergency and today the evacuations of people who had to take refuge on the upper floors or on the roofs of buildings will continue.
Closed schools and railway traffic
Schools and other activities remain closed, as well as regional rail traffic in the area is disrupted, Italian media reported.
“We spent a night that we will never forget. A flood that the history of our city had never known. Something unimaginable”, said the mayor of Faenza, Massimo Isola.
The mayor of Cesena, Enzo Lattuca, reported on his social networks that rivers are still overflowing and reminded its citizens “of the recommendation to stay away from waterways and leave basements and ground floors” and that “in the coming 6 hours the rainfall will be constant.
The alarm was also launched in Bologna where the city council warned of the possibility of flooding today in the streets adjacent to the Ravone stream.
“The road system is complex, with many flooded streets, it is difficult to travel without equipped vehicles, there are also problems in the national road system and the interruption of regional rail services and throughout the Adriatic stretch is reported.
The invitation is to adopt measures of maximum caution, the emergency has not ended, we must listen to the instructions,” said the deputy director of the Italian Civil Protection Department, Titti Postiglione, to the Rai News channel.
The president of the Emilia Romagna region, Stefano Bonaccin, in a video posted on social networks, stated that “the situation is truly dramatic in many areas.
We had decreed a meteorological alert with the closure of schools and limited movement, but the amount of water that fell today in some areas exceeded that which fell two weeks ago, which was already an unprecedented amount.