OSTRA (Italy): The week before elections, the topic of climate change is brought up after significant flooding in central Italy on Thursday caused ten deaths and four missing.Before visiting the town of Ostra, which was among the worst-hit areas when more than 400 millimeters of rain poured over a short period of time on Thursday evening, Prime Minister Mario Draghi verified the death toll.
“Because it happened so quickly, it was frightening. As her ground-floor home near Ostra started to flood, 33-year-old Laura Marinelli took her 18-month-old daughter and went to neighbours above. They ascended the roof to make a rescue call as the floods continued to rise.
She added, floating plastic pink toys in the surrounding inundated yard, “We’ve lost everything, all the photos, all the letters you can’t replace. Streets were converted into rivers, automobiles were pushed into piles by floodwaters, furniture washed out of homes, and thick mud was spread all over the area around Ancona, the port city of the middle eastern Marche region.
Schools were closed, and the fire department said that 300 people were assisting with the flood relief efforts. Several communities also lacked telephone or electricity access.
Prime Minister Draghi expressed his “sad sympathies” for the victims during a pre-scheduled press conference in Rome and provided five million euros in emergency aid for the region. Currently, we are reporting 10 dead and four missing, but regrettably, the situation is changing, the man stated.
