Nine people have been killed and six others are missing after flash floods hit the Italian Riviera turning roads into rivers and washing cars out to sea.
The huge downpour also triggered landslides along some of Italy's most picturesque coastline on the Cinque Terre, which is a popular destination for British holidaymakers.
Today fire crews and civil protection teams were working their way through the flood-ravaged towns of Vernazza and Monteroso, where two people were rescued from a flooded bank and residents were evacuated by sea.
Officials said that within a 24-hour period 500mm of rain had fallen and this had led to houses collapsing and roads and railway lines subsiding. Trains heading north along the coast from the south of Italy were being severely delayed.
Those missing were in collapsed buildings or had been in cars that were washed out to sea and there were fears that the death toll would grow as the storm headed south towards Rome - which was hit by a similar severe thunderstorm last week which left one dead.
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