Interim Emilia-Romagna Governor Irene Priolo said on Sunday that Bologna was hit by an "avalanche of water" after torrential rain pummelled the area and led the Ravone stream to break its banks. Amid torrential rain that pummelled the surrounding hills of the city over the previous days, the "saturation of the soil" created a "sort of avalanche of water" and when the Ravone broke its banks "roads became streams", said Priolo. Source: Ansa News Agency