Mudslides hit Italy, France, Belgium: reports

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ROME (AFP) — Flooding and mudslides left at least two people dead in northern Italy after heavy rains that also hit France and Belgium, reports said, with dangerous weather likely to continue on Friday.

A mudslide in Villar Pelice near the northern Italian city of Turin swept away a house, killing an old man inside it, civil protection authorities said. A second person was found dead in a car also caught up in the mudslide.

A mother and her child who lived in the building were reported missing. Elsewhere in the area, fifty patients were evacuated from a hospital in Turin.

The RAI television channel showed pictures of nearby bridges and roads blocked.

"It is just the beginning of the disturbances which may continue tomorrow," the head of the civil...