ROME: Two people died and another person went missing on Sunday as high winds and heavy rain pummelled Italy and neighbouring France.
A Romanian man was missing in the waters of the canal between Mincio and Pozzolo in northern Italy after he and four of his countrymen ended up in the water during a fishing trip. Emergency services scoured the waters in boats despite heavy rain after all but one of the men was rescued.In France meanwhile, a German tourist in her sixties was swept away by waves on the island of Corsica as violent Mistral winds battered the region with record speeds of up to 138 kilometres per hour, officials said.
Anything above 700 metres was blanketed in white, and the avalanche warning level was raised to three out of five.
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