Eight people killed in northern Italy flooding

On Wednesday, thousands of residents in northern Italy and the Balkans abandoned their homes after heavy rains led to flooding and mudslides. Italian officials in the Emilia-Romagna region said 23 rivers overflowed and more than 13,000 people were evacuated. At least eight people in the area died, and emergency workers across Italy were deployed to rescue people trapped in their homes. Italian Civil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci said the region received about a fifth of the typical annual rainfall over the last 36 hours.

How have other areas been affected? The Una River overflowed, flooding hundreds of homes in Bosnia and Croatia, and local governments reported dozens of landslides in eastern Slovenia. Organizers canceled a Formula One race scheduled for this weekend in northern Italy due to the flooding.