Floods occurred after torrential rains in Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and Veneto regions in northern Italy. Italian fire brigade Vigili del Fuoco announced that 15 people lost their lives in floods in Emilia-Romagna.
Five workers died while carrying out sewage work near Palermo on the Italian island of Sicily on Monday, with a sixth hospitalised in critical condition.
At least three people were killed and four are missing following an explosion at a hydroelectric power plant on Lake Suviana in northern Italy on Tuesday.
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This is the moment a two-year-old boy who went missing in the countryside was found by a police helicopter. The toddler was reported missing from his home in Italy on Tuesday (9 April) and an urgent search was launched. The Vigili del Fuoco launched its search helicopter and located the boy an hour later. Footage of the rescue was later shared on social media. A Vigili del Fuoco spokesman said: “In less than an hour of searching we identified and brought to safety a two-and-a-half-year-old child, he had been missing in the local countryside since the afternoon.”