13 people killed in May after a devastating flood<\/a> tore through homes in the popular holiday region of\u00a0Emilia-Romagna.\u00a0<\/p>\nDesperate families, including young children and the elderly, had to clamber on to their roofs in the tourist hotspot as they waited anxiously for rescuers to reach them in helicopters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the city of Cesena locals were forced to swim through the submerged streets, past sunken cars and floating furniture, to reach higher ground.<\/p>\n
Last month, severe storms also battered the north of Italy, killing two woman and a 16-year-old girl scout.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The overnight storm on July 25 saw roofs torn off and hundreds of trees uprooted in Milan. Roads were blocked and cars were smashed by the debris.<\/p>\n
Two women were killed in the northern Monza and Brescia provinces after being crushed by falling trees, while a teenager was seriously\u00a0injured when he was hit by a falling branch in the Veneto region.<\/p>\n
In the area around nearby Brescia, a 16-year-old girl on a scout camp was killed when a tree fell on her tent, according to Italian news agencies.\u00a0Firefighters evacuated the other members of the camp, taking them to a sports hall nearby, ANSA said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tourist attractions also bore the brunt of the bad weather, as the Sforza Castle was shut after some tiles were brought down and rain was heavy enough to penetrate the glass-vaulted Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan’s famed shopping arcade.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in Europe, a 135mph tornado toppled a construction crane in Switzerland last month, killing one person, while ripping roofs off buildings. Storms also lashed France and Germany with torrential rain flooding streets in Berlin.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And last week,\u00a0heavy rains triggered landslides and flooding across southern Norway and Sweden, forcing communities to evacuate.<\/p>\n
The Norwegian dam at the Braskereidfoss hydroelectric power plant, on the Gl\u00e5ma, Norway’s longest and most voluminous river, burst on Wednesday after days of rain.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It caused devastating floods, with footage showing wooden cabins floating down overflowing rivers. One clip\u00a0shows a mobile home crashing into a bridge on Norway’s\u00a0Hemsilar river.<\/p>\n
People were seen standing on the bridge as they watched caravans being swept away, crashing into the bridge and being crushed under the weight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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