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Diasabra 17 september 2022

Floods in Italy kill 10; Survivors plucked from roofs, trees

up survivors.

In the town of Ostra, a fa-
ther and his adult son were
found dead in their building's
flooded garage where they
had gone to try to get their
car out, and another man
who tried to remove his mo-
torcycle from a garage also
perished, state TV said. Else-
where, a man was found dead
in his car.

A bad weather watch had
been issued on Thursday, but
(AP) — Flash floods swept without drinking water. tated towns later Friday and pact. The fire department not at the highest level.
through several towns Fri- A mother and her young his government announced tweeted that dozens of people
day in hilly central Italy daughter were missing after 5 million euros (dollars) in trapped in cars or who had Hundreds of people fled or
after hours of exception- trying to escape the floods, aid to the region. "It was an climbed up to rooftops or were evacuated from their
ally heavy rain, leaving 10 Pasqualini told the Italian extreme event, more than trees to escape rising flood- homes until the premises
people dead and at least news agency ANSA. Else- an exceptional one," clima- waters had been rescued. Po- could be checked for safe-
four missing. Dozens of where in town, a boy was tologist Massimiliano Fazzini lice in the town of Sassofer- ty and mountains of mud
survivors scrambled onto swept away from the arms of told Italian state TV. He said, rato, unable to reach a man cleared away.
rooftops or up into trees his mother, who was rescued. based on his calculations, trapped in a car, extending a
to await rescue. the amount of rain that fell, long tree branch to him and Some of the worst flooding
Premier Mario Draghi told concentrated over four hours pulled him to safety. hit the town of Senigallia,
Floods invaded garages and a news conference in Rome that included an especially Helicopter crews rescued where the River Misa over-
basements and knocked that 10 people were dead heavy 15-minute period, seven people in remote towns flowed its banks. Hamlets in
down doors. In one town, and four were missing in the was the most in hundreds of of the Apennine Mountains. the hills near the Renaissance
the powerful rush of water flash floods. He thanked res- years. tourist town of Urbino were
pushed a car onto a second- cuers "for their professional- Hundreds of firefighters also inundated when fast-
story balcony, while else- ism, dedication and courage." In a space of a few hours, the struggled Friday to remove moving rivers of water, mud
where parked vehicles were Officials said some 50 people region was deluged with the toppled tree trunks and and debris rushed through
crumpled on top of each oth- were treated at hospitals for amount of rainfall it usually branches amid thick mud as the streets.
er in the streets. Some farm injuries. receives in six months, state they searched for people who
fields near the sea were me- TV said. A summer of virtu- could have been buried by In the town of Cantiano, peo-
ters (yards) under water. Draghi, who is serving in a ally no rain meant hillsides debris. They waded through ple shoveled mud from stores
caretaker role ahead of Italy's were unusually hard and dry, waist-high water in flooded and homes and an excavating
The overnight flooding left Sept. 25 national election, so the water ran faster down streets, while others paddled machine was deployed to
the town's 1,300 residents planned to tour some devas- the slopes, increasing its im- in rubber dinghies to scoop clear the town square.

Ukrainian president: Mass grave found near recaptured city

(AP) — Ukrainian author- Oleg Kotenko, an official broadcaster Sky News that
ities found a mass burial with the Ukrainian ministry a pit containing more than
site near a recaptured tasked with reintegrating oc- 440 bodies was discovered
northeastern city previ- cupied territories, said videos near Izium after Kyiv's forces
ously occupied by Russian that Russian soldiers posted swept in. He described the
forces, President Volody- on social media indicated grave as "one of the largest
myr Zelenskyy announced there were likely more than burial sites in any one liber-
Thursday night. 17 bodies in the grave. ated city."

The grave was discovered Izium resident Sergei Goro- Some of the people buried
close to Izium in the Kharkiv dko said that among the hun- in the pit were shot. Others
region. "The necessary pro- dreds buried in individual died from artillery fire, mines
cedures have already begun graves were dozens of adults or airstrikes. Many of the
there. More information and children killed in a Rus- bodies have not been identi-
— clear, verifiable informa- sian airstrike on an apartment fied yet, Bolvinov said.
tion — should be available building.
tomorrow," Zelenskyy said in Russian forces left Izium and
his nightly televised address. He said he pulled some of other parts of the Kharkiv re-
them out of the rubble "with gion last week amid a stun-
Associated Press journalists my own hands." ning Ukrainian counter-
saw the site Thursday in a offensive. On Wednesday,
forest outside Izium. Amid Zelenskyy invoked the Zelenskyy made a rare trip
the trees were hundreds of names of other Ukrainian outside the capital to watch
graves with simple wooden cities where authorities said the national flag being raised
crosses, most of them marked retreating Russian troops left over Izium's city hall.
only with numbers. A larger behind mass graves of civil-
grave bore a marker saying ians and evidence of possible Earlier Thursday, Zelen-
it contained the bodies of 17 war crimes. skyy said that during the five
Ukrainian soldiers. months the Russians occu-
Sergei Bolvinov, a senior in- pied the region, they "only
Investigators with metal de- vestigator for Ukrainian po- destroyed, only deprived,
tectors were scanning the site lice in the eastern Kharkiv only took away."
for any hidden explosives. region, told British TV