
2 Foreign Tourists, Baby and His Grandmother, Are Missing After Floods Hit Central Italy
ROME—Two foreign tourists, a 5-month-old baby and his grandmother, were missing on Tuesday after floods hit Italy’s central Tuscany region overnight, firefighters said. Rescuers searched for the two on Tuesday using divers, rescue dogs, and drones. The baby’s parents and grandfather were rescued from a rooftop after the house where they were staying was flooded as Pisa Province was battered by torrential rain. Firefighters did not specify their nationality. The severe flooding was caused by a local river that broke its banks in Montecatini Val di Cecina in central Tuscany. “We always aim at finding people alive, but this accident doesn’t leave us many hopes,” a spokesperson for the firefighters, Luca Cari, told SkyTG24. “The situation is very, very critical.”...
