ROME (AP) — Rescuers on Sunday retrieved the body of an elderly woman, the third fatality in the Sardinian town of Bitti, which was partially buried a day earlier by mudslides after torrential rainfall. The Italian news agency LaPresse said that the corpse of the 89-year-old victim had washed downhill from near her home to the town basketball court. One was a rancher who was caught up in the raging muddy waters on his way home; the other was a 90-year-old man in his home. The floodwaters and mounds of mud overturned and smashed cars, leaving vehicles half-buried in dirt and debris. Christian Solinas on Sunday lamented what he said was “excessive bureaucracy” in the failure to implement projects, funded in the wake of the 2013 flooding, to make areas of the island geologically safe.

Source: Daily Sun November 29, 2020 14:37 UTC