Italy declares state of emergency after storms in southern regions

Fear in Sicilian town as vast landslide risks widening

Gaetano Ferrera had just a few minutes to grab belongings from his home, one of hundreds evacuated after a landslide in Sicily that experts warn could worsen due to heavy rainfall.

Sicily landslide forces evacuation of 1,500

A landslide in southern Sicily has homes balanced at the edge of a cliff following days of rain. Officials have said some people won't be able to return to living in their homes.

A Landslide Takes a Town's Edge With It

Days of heavy rains from a cyclone triggered a massive landslide in the southern Sicilian village of Niscemi, cleaving off the town's edge, collapsing houses, and forcing the evacuation of 1,500 of the 25,000 residents, reports the Guardian . The area of the landslide spanned 2.5 miles. At...

Huge landslide leaves Sicilian homes teetering on cliff edge

The disaster has forced the evacuation of over 1,500 people and civil protection crews warn the entire hill the town is perched on is falling down.

Huge landslide cleaves off edge of town in Sicily, forces evacuation of 1,500 people

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday toured a southern town in Sicily where days of heavy rains from a cyclone triggered a massive landslide that cleaved off the town's edge, collapsing houses and forcing the evacuation of over 1,500 people.

'The entire hill is collapsing': Landslide in Sicily causes homes to fall off cliff edge, 1,500 evacuated

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited the town of Niscemi, where some homes have been left teetering on the edge of a cliff, rendering them "uninhabitable".