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Nine reported dead as storms hit Italian island of Sardinia

ROME - Nine people died and hundreds were evacuated when storms tore through the Italian island of Sardinia on Monday night, sweeping cars away and causing a bridge to collapse, local media reported.
Television pictures showed torrential rain, with streets submerged in muddy floodwaters and rivers bursting their banks.
"We're at maximum alert," Giorgio Cicalo, an official from the Civil Protection Authority in Sardinia told RAI state television. "We haven't seen a situation as extreme as this, perhaps for decades. Especially because it's been across the whole island."