At least two dead in Italian Tuscany due to heavy rains
At least five people have died, including a minor, due to a strong storm that has hit the coast of Corsica, in France, with hail, rain and winds of 224 kilometers per hour that also extends to other Mediterranean regions, such as Italian Tuscany. , where two people have died, or Sardinia.
A thirteen-year-old girl has been found dead after a tree fell in southern Corsica (France), while a 72-year-old woman has died after her car was hit by debris that came from a shed, according to have picked up BFMTV.
The third victim is a 46-year-old French citizen who died after a tree fell on top of the bungalow where he was staying. In that same campsite, a 23-year-old Italian woman was injured by the storm and was taken to hospital in critical condition.
The fourth and fifth victims, who have been added after the official balance, are a 62-year-old fisherman in Girolata and a kayaker in Erbalunga, according to the spokesman for the area’s maritime prefect, Pierre-Louis Josselin.
The French Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, has announced on his official Twitter profile that he will travel to Corsica this afternoon. For her part, the French Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, has announced that France will activate “the interministerial crisis unit” and has indicated that the authorities are closely monitoring “the operations that take place on land and sea.”
The storm has also hit Italian Tuscany, where at least two people have been killed by trees and at least 20 have been injured, some seriously, as reported by the president of the regional council of Tuscany, Antonio Mazzeo, in his profile. facebook official.
The bad weather that affected the northern region of Emilia-Romagna, in the province of Modena, last night. Thus, in the municipality of San Felice sul Panaro, “enormous damage” has been recorded, as reported by the authorities, and at least eleven families have been evacuated after strong gusts of wind took the roof off a building.
