At least 13 people have died and thousands have been forced to evacuate their homes amid devastating flooding across Italy’s northern Emilia-Romagna region that has destroyed homes and agricultural lands.
Torrential rains this week across the region triggered up to 300 landslides, and caused 23 overflowing rivers while flooding municipalities.
Some 400 roads were also damaged or destroyed in the heavy rains, which saw six months’ worth of rainfall in just a day-and-a-half following a prolonged period of drought, the BBC reported.
The death toll rose to 13 on May 18 after additional bodies were discovered in the hard-hit province of Ravenna, state-run RAI television reported, citing the Ravenna prefecture….