Two Missing, Evacuations Underway as Flash Flooding Submerges Northwest Italy

Lamposts and a tickets kiosk are submerged by the
swollen Po river in Turin, Italy, on Nov. 25, 2016.

Flash flooding in northwest Italy has forced evacuations in several cities and may be responsible for at least two deaths.

An expansive, lumbering storm centered over the Iberian Peninsula pumped deep moisture into northwest Italy, said weather.com senior meteorologist Jonathan Erdman, and run off from the resulting torrential rains swept quickly out of the mountainous terrain.

The flood waters may have already claimed a life Thursday when five migrants were reportedly swept away after a swell hit the bridge they were living under, euronews reports. Four were saved, but a Nigerian man is still missing, presumed drowned.

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