SitiWanMahani - Pihak berkuasa Itali telah mengisytiharkan darurat
di Sardinia selepas taufan melanda pulau Mediterranean. Sekurang-kurangnya 16
orang diketahui telah mati dan beratus-ratus telah dipindahkan dari rumah
mereka selepas angin sehingga 125 kilometer sejam dan lambaran hujan membawa
kemusnahan.
Beberapa orang dilaporkan hilang. Di bandar timur
laut Olbia, Datuk Bandar berkata banjir secara tiba-tiba telah pecah “seperti
bom”. Langit membuang seperti hujan banyak dalam satu jam sebagai jatuh pada
Milan dalam tempoh 6 bulan, tambah Gianni Giovanelli.
Datuk Bandar itu berkata rumah-rumah di seluruh
kawasan itu telah ditinggalkan separuh tenggelam oleh banjir dan penyelamat
masih mencari mangsa seberapa mungkin. “Kami hanya mendapat seorang kanak-kanak
mati yang kami telah mencari sepanjang malam bagi,” katanya kepada televisyen
Itali.
Sebuah keluarga Brazil 4 dilaporkan lemas selepas
bawah tanah mereka diratakan dipe-nuhi dengan air. Di tempat lain kereta telah
dihanyutkan, rumah ditenggelami air dan jambatan runtuh sungai melimpah.
Itali Perdana Menteri Enrico Letta dipanggil sebagai
“tragedi Negara”, berkata keadaan darurat bermakna sumber-sumber tambahan akan
dibuat segera sedia untuk sampai ke kawasan terjejas.
Italy
declares state of emergency in Sardinia after deadly floods
Italian authorities have declared a state of
emergency in Sardinia after a cyclone struck the Mediterranean island. At least
16 people are known to have died and hundreds have been moved from their homes
after winds of up to 125 kilometres an hour and sheets of rain brought
devastation.
Several people are reported missing. In the
northeastern town of Olbia, the mayor said sudden flooding had burst "like
a bomb". The skies dumped as much rain in an hour as falls on Milan in six
months, Gianni Giovanelli added.
The mayor said houses across the area had been left
half submerged by the floods and rescuers were still searching for possible
victims. "We've just found a dead child we had been searching all night
for," he told Italian television.
A Brazilian family of four were reported drowned
after their basement flat filled with water. Elsewhere cars were swept away,
homes were flooded and bridges collapsed as rivers burst their banks.
Italy's prime minister Enrico Letta called it a
"national tragedy", saying the state of emergency meant extra
resources would be made immediately available to reach affected areas.
