ASTONISHING video footage shows extreme floods sweeping through the streets of Italy as a red alert is issued for severe weather.
The north of the country has been battered by storms, causing massive disruption and even triggering landslides.
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Italy is the latest European country to battle bad weather, after various holiday hot-spots such as Majorica and Lanzarote – where flooding continues to cause trouble.
Clips uploaded to social media show torrents of water rampaging down steep, narrow streets.
The roads and walkways are completely submerged beneath the gushing brown water, turning the passages into fast-flowing rivers.
Fountains and spray form where the water collides with walls because it is flowing with such force.
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Other aerial shots show huge swathes of land underwater, with fields resembling large, still lakes.
Countryside roads are completely flooded in certain sections, rendering them unusable, and stand as islands amid the…
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