Flood in the Marche: at least 10 dead. Four missing, among them two children. Hundreds of displaced people – Chronicle

The death toll of the flood that hit the Marche has risen to 10. The prefecture of Ancona updated the budget.

There are also four missing, two are children.

The Cabinet has state of emergency for the Marche Region approved.

After the press conference, Prime Minister Draghi will go to the Marche region, to Ostra in the province of Ancona, to visit the areas affected by bad weather and to preside over operational meetings with the coordination of relief efforts and with the local authorities. Palazzo Chigi communicates it. The press conference at the end of the Cdm that approved the dl aid ter is scheduled for 3.15 pm.

“There were moments of terrorwith truly extraordinary quantities of water “. Thus the head of the Civil Protection Fabrizio Curcio after the meeting in the prefecture in Ancona which was also attended by the top management of the fire brigade, the head of department Laura Lega and the head of the body Giorgio Parisi.”It rained a third in a few hours than what it normally rains in these areas in a year – he adds – and in some areas it rained twice as much as it rains in summer. It was a quantity of water that suddenly spilled over the territories, causing havoc and death “.

“In the areas affected by the bad weather emergency in the Marche there are currently hundreds of displaced people“. The prefect of Ancona Darco Pellos said at the end of the meeting at the regional civil protection. The prefect did not give precise numbers to the journalists for victims and missing, which he instead spoke of during the meeting behind closed doors. confirmed that there are “ongoing research involving minors”.

There are at least 180 firefighters at work in the area of ​​the storm that hit the region: dozens of people who took refuge on the roofs of houses and trees were saved during the night, explains the fire brigade. More than one hundred and fifty interventions that have been carried out.

There are 3 missing in Barbaraone of the municipalities most affected by the flood last night in the Marche. According to what was reconstructed by the mayor Riccardo Pasqualini, the son of the pharmacist Silvia Mereu, Mattia, about 8 years old, is missing; 17 year old Noemi Bartolucci and her mother Brunella Chiu, 56 years old. The other son of the woman, Simone, was saved by attaching himself to a branch of a large plant. Mayor Barbara Riccaro Pasqualini arrived in the bridge area near which the three disappeared were overwhelmed. ‘It was like the collapse of a dam – says the mayor who arrived in the area of ​​the bridge near which the three missing were overwhelmed – the world came down in an instant. A terrifying thud and then the wave. It was not a flood but a tsunami ‘. The owner of the nearby mill, the mayor said, looked out the window and saw 1.5 meters of water. Responsibilities? “We are trying to resolve the situation, this is not the time – he concludes – we will see later”.