Italy: weather in Italy 17 human lives

Since the last Sunday in Italy severe weather. Several people were killed by falling trees, a German tourist was killed on the island of Sardinia by a bolt of lightning, a second Person died after a lightning strike a few days ago on Saturday in a hospital.

A spokeswoman for the Italian civil protection announced that so far 17 deaths have been reported in connection with the storms. The Association of the Italian agricultural organization Coldiretti said that the storms have destroyed about 14 million trees; much of it in the North of Italy.

suffer the Whole of Italy, said Poker the head of the civil protection Angelo Borrelli on Saturday in the Northern Italian city of Belluno in the province of Veneto. However, the Situation in Veneto is particularly bad. There are "apocalyptic" scenes, said Borrelli.

In the Alps near Belluno gave in, pine and spruce trees in large quantities, such as matches. Villages and roads in the regions of Trentino and Veneto were cut off by landslides.

Many of the places and streets of Venice were inundated by the largest floods since a decade. In many Parts of the city tourists remained nothing more than rubber boots to Wade through the high water or the use of webs.

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