Storm Ciaran in Italy: one dead in Tuscany, one missing in Veneto and damages throughout the country

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Storm Ciaran, which has already caused five deaths in Europe, has reached Italy, where it has caused one death in Tuscany and one missing in Veneto.

In Tuscany, an 85-year-old man was found dead in his home on the ground floor of a house in Montemurlo, in the hamlet of Bagnolo, near Prato. Rescuers assume that the elderly man was unable to reach the upper floors and drowned.

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In the Belluno area, an off-duty firefighter, who was helping his father arrange sandbags along the bank of a stream, slipped and ended up in the stream swollen by rain, in the area between Puos d'Alpago and Bastia (Belluno). The firefighters immediately began searching, but the rainfall is hindering operations.

The regions most affected are Veneto and Tuscany, where the red alert is in force. In Veneto, the peak of the Adige flood is expected tomorrow morning in transit in Trento, and in the late afternoon or evening of tomorrow it will pass through Verona.

In Vicenza, the increase in the level of the Bacchiglione and the streams has led to the opening of the retention basins. Winds of up to 130 km per hour and intense thunderstorms are expected for tomorrow: for this reason, schools will be closed in the region, starting from the most exposed provinces.

In Belluno and Verona, lessons are suspended, students are at home also in 42 out of 95 municipalities of Treviso. Friuli-Venezia Giulia is also taking action against Ciaran: From today at noon to midnight tomorrow, Udine has closed public parks and gardens, sports facilities, museums, libraries, cemeteries. Trieste has also closed its gardens. Between the two regions on red alert, Trenitalia has suspended train circulation on the Portogruaro-Casarsa and Portogruaro-Trieste routes, and the Eastern Veneto Transport Company has also suspended all bus connections to Friuli.

Orange alert in Trentino, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria. In the Levante Ligure it is confirmed as orange and the sea is worrying: Waves of up to six meters are expected. In Milan there is concern for a new flooding of the Seveso.

Tuscany also continues with the orange alert, while the governor Eugenio Giani speaks of "further worsening in the coming hours". In Viareggio tomorrow schools and pine forests will be closed and lessons will be stopped in the province of Massa Carrara. In Lazio there is a yellow alert, while the South is taking cover, closing schools tomorrow in Naples, Caserta, Benevento and Salerno. For the whole day tomorrow in Taranto access to the tree-lined areas of gardens, parks, villas and city cemeteries will be prohibited.

While in Italy the first damages are being counted, and Ciaran's fury is awaited, in the rest of Europe the toll is tragic: In the north-west of France the wind gusts reached 200 km/h and a tree, falling on a lorry, killed a truck driver. In Le Havre another victim of the bad weather while sixteen injured are also counted throughout the country.

In Belgium, there are two victims, including a 5-year-old boy who was hit by a branch while playing in a park; another child, 3 years old, was injured. In Ghent, a tree fell on two passers-by: one died and the other was injured; one was also injured in Antwerp.

A victim also in Spain, in the center of Madrid: A twenty-year-old girl was killed by a falling tree.

Italian authorities recommend citizens to pay maximum attention and follow the instructions of the police and firefighters.