The floods in the northern Emilia-Romagna region have claimed 13 lives as of Thursday evening. Among the dead were an elderly couple trapped inside their home in Cava, a hamlet in the province of Forlì-Cesena. “We will rebuild everything as we did for the earthquake.”People clean up debris at a coffee shop in Faenza, Italy. It followed flooding in Emilia-Romagna and parts of Marche in early May in which two people died. Before the floods, Emilia-Romagna and other areas of northern Italy were blighted by a drought that dried out land, reducing its capacity to absorb water.

Source: The Guardian May 18, 2023 21:28 UTC