Devastating Storms Ravage Switzerland and Northern Italy

Storms in Switzerland and northern Italy have caused severe flooding and landslides, leading to at least four fatalities. Authorities reported extensive damage, including collapsed bridges and isolated villages. Rescue operations are ongoing, but multiple people remain missing as heavy rains continue to wreak havoc in the region.

Devastating storms in Switzerland and northern Italy have resulted in extensive flooding and deadly landslides, claiming at least four lives, authorities confirmed Sunday.

Three bodies were recovered after a landslide in the Fontana area of the Maggia valley in Ticino canton, southern Switzerland. Heavy rains battered southern and western Switzerland over the weekend, leading to evacuations at camping sites along the Maggia River and the partial collapse of the Visletto road bridge. One individual remains missing in the nearby Lavizzara valley.

North of the region, the Rhone River overflowed in Valais canton, flooding both a highway and a railway line. Police found the body of a missing man, reported by his partner, at a hotel in Saas-Grund early Sunday. He had likely been caught off guard by the flooding.

In the upper Rhone valley near the Italian border, another man has been missing since Saturday evening.

Northern Italy also faced significant flooding, thunderstorms, and landslides, prompting around 80 rescue operations and the evacuation of dozens in the Piedmont region. Firefighters rescued a family of three from their car trapped by rising waters of the Orco torrent between Montanaro and San Benigno Canavese. Several villages in the Valle D'Aosta region became isolated due to overflowed streams and landslides.

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