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Catania, tornado devastates the city: several injured

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CATANIA. A violent storm hit eastern and south-eastern Sicily in the early afternoon, causing damage and, according to the Municipality of Catania, even some injuries. One of the most critical situations concerns Catania where, together with the heavy rain and in some cases the hail, a strong wind has arrived that has swept away the umbrellas of the dehors of the city center, knocked down trees, broke public lighting poles. More serious situation, as always, in the southern part of the city where numerous flooding of streets, houses and cellars are reported. Several flights arriving at Fontanarossa airport, which is also located in the same southern area of ​​the city, have been diverted: to Malta the flight from Bologna at 15.25, to Bari the flight from Naples at 15.40, to Palermo the flight from Amsterdam of 16.10 while the flight from Genoa returned to the Ligurian capital. This morning the Catania airport had instead welcomed some flights that should have landed in Palermo and which had always been diverted due to bad weather that in the early hours of the day had mainly affected the provinces of Trapani and Palermo.

According to the Municipality of Catania, which activated the Civil Protection and provided the first information through social media, the severe weather caused “serious damage even in homes and businesses. The presence of wounded has been reported ».

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According to the firefighters of Catania, there are about fifty interventions in progress in the city and in the hinterland due to flooding, unsafe trees, ground instability. Flooding also in the area between Riposto and Mascali, in the northern part of the province, while landslides are reported in the area of ​​the Sigonella base in the south. Several trees felled on the Catania ciriconvallazione and debris and also fallen poles on a stretch of the highway to Syracuse.

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