Agency :
Four people died when mudslides hit their homes in the border area between Italy and Switzerland on Saturday.
A fifth was missing near the Italian port city of Genoa after days of torrential rains and flooding. Severe storms over the past few weeks have again exposed the fragile state of infrastructure in many parts of Italy.
Poor planning and widespread illegal building in the area greatly increase the threat posed by flooding.
Heavy rains for much of the past month have caused chaos in many areas of Italy, flooding city streets and causing hundreds of millions of euros damage, three years after seven people were killed in severe floods in 2011.
Four people died when mudslides hit their homes in the border area between Italy and Switzerland on Saturday.
A fifth was missing near the Italian port city of Genoa after days of torrential rains and flooding. Severe storms over the past few weeks have again exposed the fragile state of infrastructure in many parts of Italy.
Poor planning and widespread illegal building in the area greatly increase the threat posed by flooding.
Heavy rains for much of the past month have caused chaos in many areas of Italy, flooding city streets and causing hundreds of millions of euros damage, three years after seven people were killed in severe floods in 2011.
