Flood in the Marche: the body of one of the three missing has been identified. The mayors: “Nobody warned us”
Firefighters have identified the body of one of the three missing in the flood that hit the Senigallia area on Thursday evening. The body, that it should be a man’s, was identified in the Serra dei Conti area. I’m three dispersed me which at the moment are missing: the little Mattia8 years old, Brunella Chiùthe 56-year-old who was in the car with her daughter, and a 47 year old from Arcevia, whose car was found in the Misa River.
I’m 10 victims at the moment of the flood that hit the Marche.
A Senigallia traffic is slow to return to normal, e some roads have been reopened, even if there are mounds of mud lying around. The entrance to a pastry shop is blocked by a 4-meter tree trunk, carried away by the flood of the Misa river. In via Andrea Costa, across the river, the presence of waste up to the middle of the road up to where the flooding arrived, with the water reaching a height of one meter. From the first morning someone started shoveling mud and trying to remove damaged goods or furnishings from the premises on the ground floors. Approximately 90 people went to the reception center yesterday set up by Caritas, in the former episcopal seminary: at the end of the day about thirty had returned home or had found accommodation elsewhere.
The Cabinet has state of emergency approved for the Marche Region, approving an initial loan of 5 million. “It’s a disaster. We will do everything possible”– said the prime minister, Mario Draghi, on a visit to Pianello di Ostra, in the province of Ancona. “We will do everything necessary – he continued -. We embrace you all, we are close to you and count on us”. “Of course there is a hydrogeological problem“said Draghi. Mattarella’s anguish for the victims and the damage mayors of municipalities affected report the lack of alert: ‘No one warned us’.
The Marche Regional Civil Protection has directed a message from alert for hydrogeological, hydraulic, storm and wind criticalities, valid until midnight. “Given the unpredictability of this type of adverse weather events” in the event of heavy rains, the population is invited to “avoid moving and go out only for actual needs. In the event of flooding, the population is invited to go up to the upper floors of the houses “.