Bridge collapses after floods hit Emilia Romagna

Record ID: 1725301

  • Title: Bridge collapses after floods hit Emilia Romagna
  • Date: 17th May 2023
  • Summary: BUDRIO, ITALY (MAY 17, 2023) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF COLLAPSED BRIDGE ON IDICE RIVER SUBMERGED BUILDINGS (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) BUDRIO RESIDENT, GIAMPAOLO ZICCHIN, SAYING: "The bridge collapsed this morning at 7 am. My daughter lives in San Martino and she told me not to move because the bridge had collapsed. In San Martino people are being evacuated because the banks of the river are collapsing and residents are being moved to Molinella." VARIOUS OF FLOODED PARK SUBMERGED BUILDINGS
  • Embargoed: 31st May 2023 16:41
  • Keywords: EMILIA ROMAGNA EUROPE FAENZA FLOOD FORLI ITALY WEATHER
  • Location: BUDRIO, ITALY
  • City: BUDRIO, ITALY
  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: Environment,Europe,Weather
  • Reuters ID: LVA001321517052023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: A bridge collapsed near Bologna on Wednesday (May 17) after floods hit Emilia Romagna and Marche regions killing at least eight people.
    The 'Ponte della Motta' collapsed in the morning after the waters of the Idice river broke their banks.
    Following the collapse of the Motta bridge, the mayor of Budrio arranged for the immediate evacuation of the inhabitants of the nearby village of San Martino in Argine.
    Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes as torrential rain battered Italy's northern Emilia-Romagna region, triggering floods and landslides.
    Civil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci said some areas had received half their average annual rainfall in just 36 hours, causing rivers to burst their banks, sending water cascading through towns and submerging thousands of acres of farmland.
    Local authorities said flooding had hit 37 towns and communities and some 120 landslides had been registered.
    It was the second time this month that Emilia-Romagna has been battered by bad weather, with at least two people dying during storms at the beginning of May.
    The flooding followed months of drought which had dried out the land, reducing its capacity to absorb water and worsening the impact of the floods, meteorologists said.
    (Production: Claudia Greco, Cristiano Corvino, Fabiano Franchitti)
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