Extreme Weather Causes Fatality and Bridge Collapse in Southern Italy

Extreme weather reaps one victim in southern Italy

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 3 - A wave of extreme weather that hit southern Italy Thursday has reaped one victim, a 53-year-old man from a town near Bari who disappeared when a bridge collapsed in Molise sending him and his car into the river below. Thus far searches for the body of Domenico Racanati from Bisceglie have been in vain. "He left yesterday morning at four. I was still asleep and didn't even get a chance to say goodbye," his tearful wife Vanessa said Friday. Racanati hasn't been heard from...

By ANSA