STORMS, TORRENTIAL FLOODS IN SICILY KILL AT LEAST 12
Storms lashing Sicily have killed at least 12 people with torrential floods, Italian authorities said Sunday, including nine members of two families who were spending a long weekend together in a country home near Palermo that was overrun by water from a rapidly swelling river.
After surveying the stricken Mediterranean island by helicopter, Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte said two of the victims were a German couple whose car was swept away by flood waters near Agrigento, a tourist town known for its ancient Greek temples.
State broadcaster RaiNews24 said the sole survivor of the flooded home in Casteldaccia was stepping
outside when the torrent of water and mud rushed in.
The Italian news agency ANSA said Giordano lost his wife, two of his children, his parents and a brother in the flood. He has a daughter
who was elsewhere when the flooding struck.
Italian news reports said the dead included a 1-yearold, a 3-year-old and a teenager.