Local media showed rescuers on rafts attempting to evacuate residents of Senigallia, a seaside hamlet, and stated that over 300 firefighters are currently working in the Marche area of central Italy.
Digital Desk: Italy has experienced flash floods that have claimed at least 10 lives, including a mud tsunami that swallowed some victims alive.
Residents could be seen in footage posted on social media removing muck from the streets as torrential rains swept through many towns, leaving a trail of stranded and damaged cars.
The nation's civil protection organization reports that 400 millimeters (15.75 inches) or so of rain fell in a span of two to three hours.
Ludovico Caverni, the mayor of Serra Sant'Abbondio, said on RAI state radio that it felt like an earthquake.
Fabrizio Curcio, the president of the national civil protection agency, met with local authorities in Ancona, the capital of the Marche region, to examine the damage while party leaders promoting their candidates for Italy's September 25 election voiced their solidarity.
The Italian Society of Environmental Geology (SIGEA) blamed the torrential overnight rains on climate change, claiming that they were "irreversible phenomena, a taste of what our future will be."
Local media showed rescuers on rafts attempting to evacuate residents of Senigallia, a seaside hamlet, and stated that over 300 firefighters are currently working in the Marche area of central Italy.
The regional administration of Marche's chief of civil protection, Stefano Aguzzi, described the rainfall as being much stronger than had been anticipated. "We were given a typical alert for rain, but nobody had expected anything like this," he added.
Enrico Letta, the head of the center-left Democratic Party, announced that he would halt campaigning in Marche "as a sign of sadness" and permit local activists to take part in initiatives to aid the towns affected by the floods.
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