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Storm Ciaran/ The death toll in Europe reaches 16

2023-11-04 08:06:16Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Storm Ciaran/ The death toll in Europe reaches 16

The death toll from Storm Ciaran, which has brought heavy rain and record-breaking winds across western Europe, rose to at least 16 on Friday. Meanwhile, large areas of Italy's Tuscany were also hit by floods prompting officials to declare a state of emergency after weather experts reported record rainfall.

At least six people were killed in the central region of Tuscany, Italian officials said, on Friday after strong winds and rain battered central Italy. The extreme conditions were directly linked to Storm Ciaran.

In Tuscany, cars were flooded after the Bisenzio River burst its banks, while people climbed onto roofs to escape the flood.

Rescue services in Italy also received dozens of calls to incidents across the region to help drivers stuck in flooded tunnels or blocked by fallen trees amid strong winds.

The governor of Tuscany, Eugenio Giani, described the heavy rain as "unprecedented" and after a meeting with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni declared a state of emergency for the most affected areas of the region.

Among the dead was an 85-year-old man found strangled on the first floor of his home in Montemurlo, northwest of Florence. "What happened tonight in Tuscany has a name: climate change," Giani said in a post on X.

About 190 people have been forced to leave their homes in the historic city of Florence.

In Campi Bisenzio, ground-floor properties were damaged, parked cars were half-submerged and rescue officials navigated flooded streets in rubber boats.

Florence Mayor Dario Nardella described the situation as "critical" as the level of the Arno River continued to rise. In the Italian city, a man and his wife were found dead after their car overturned in Vinci, west of Florence.

The Italian Prime Minister has announced an initial state aid package of about 5.4 million dollars for the region.

At least three people were also reported dead off the coast of Portugal on Friday after a Danish-flagged sailboat capsized on a beach in Santa Cruz north of Lisbon, a navy spokesman said.

In the Belgian city of Ghent, a 5-year-old Ukrainian boy and a 64-year-old woman were killed by falling tree branches. In France, a truck driver was killed when a tree fell on him, and local officials also reported a second death in the city of Le Havre.

Falling trees killed one woman in the Spanish capital Madrid and another in the south of the Netherlands.

As of Friday morning, more than 500,000 homes in France remained without electricity, government spokesman Olivier Veran said.

French national weather service Meteo-France went to X and said wind speeds in Brittany were "extraordinary" and "many trees were broken".

Air, rail and ferry services continued to witness cancellations and long delays in several European countries.


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