Catastrophic storms attack Switzerland, Italy, Frence! Communication cutoff at Zermatt
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Heavy rain and thunderstorms wreaked havoc in Switzerland and northern Italy. Switzerland was badly hit, with more than 100 millimeters of rain falling in more than half of its area in an hour.
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Flash flooding and landslides swept away cars and houses, with at least one person known to have died, alongside widespread damage to transport infrastructure. The mountain resort of Zermatt was entirely cut off due to a combination of flood water, road closures and suspended train services.
A chain of catastrophic storms has been destroying infrastructure for several days, including several railway lines, and flooding towns in the cantons of Valais, Grisons and Ticino. Zermatt is isolated by railway with part of the track destroyed
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Unsettled conditions persisted around the Alpine region over the weekend, before pushing farther south into Italy, bringing similar downpours to Emilia-Romagna and northern Tuscany on Tuesday. Between 100mm and 200mm of rain fell across much of the area, which caused rivers to overflow their banks and resulted in widespread flooding.
Elsewhere, water levels in Lake Garda reached their highest level since 1977, while a strong thunderstorm in Veneto produced a tornado near Rovigo, which brought down several trees and damaged buildings.
Three people are missing after floodwaters swept through the south-eastern Swiss town of Misox in the alpine valley of Graubünden - also known as Grisons.
A massive thunderstorm on Friday night caused rivers to break their banks, flooding streets and causing several dozen residents to be evacuated.
Four were initially reported missing, but a woman was found under rocks and taken to hospital in the city of Lugano. Rescuers are still searching for a couple and a woman who may have been in their homes when the flooding occurred, police said.
Further west, the alpine resort of Zermatt has been isolated by floodwaters.
Footage from the town, which lies at the base of the iconic Matterhorn mountain, showed floodwaters raging through the streets on Friday.
The Swiss government's weather service said 4.88 inches of rain had fallen in the area on Friday - most of it over a one-hour period.
"This concentration of rain happens only once every 30 years," a spokesman for the service said.
Train links between Visp and Zermatt have been suspended, and the road between Täsch and Zermatt has been closed, leaving the resort completely inaccessible.
Authorities had prepared for some overflow, restricting public access to the banks of the Rhône and its offshoot rivers from Friday.
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