Matteo Ciurca, 40, the man missing since yesterday afternoon after the swollen Crisa River in Leonforte (Enna) swept away the car he was driving, has been found dead. Firefighters have found his body, and recovery operations are underway.

Two cars ended up in the stream: while in one, the two occupants saved themselves by first climbing on the roofs of the cars, thanks to the intervention of the firefighters, Ciurca was reported missing.

The cars were on a small road perpendicular to provincial road 39 and parallel to the Crisa stream in the Noce district . The stream is almost always dry or reduced to a stream less than a meter wide: what should be its bed is cultivated. "There was a water bomb," says Leonforte's mayor, Piero Livolsi.

The Civil Protection Department has issued an orange alert for parts of Liguria and Lombardy today, with a yellow alert for the remaining areas of the two regions, Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, Tuscany, and some areas of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Marche.

Lorenzo Tedici, meteorologist and media manager at iLMeteo.it, explains that the next few hours will see the last spike in temperatures across much of the country. In a few days, highs will drop by as much as 10 degrees, especially in the north. In short, temperatures will drop from 40 degrees to 25 degrees during the central hours of the day.

(Unioneonline)

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