Nine people have died and thousands more have been made homeless as heavy flooding continues to take its toll in Italy. An average of 200mm of rain had fallen in 36 hours in the region of Emilia-Romagna.
Residents in the north of Italy have been told to get to higher ground amid fears rain-swollen rivers will again burst their banks.
Days of rainstorms stretched across a swath of northern Italy and the Balkans, where 'apocalyptic' floods, landslides and evacuations were also reported in Croatia, Bosnia and Slovenia. The regions impacted recently had faced droughts, which meant the soil was too dry to absorb the sudden lashings of rain Italian civil protection minister Nello Musemeci called for a new nationwide hydraulic engineering plan to protect communities from future floods and landslides.
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