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• Emilia Romagna Grand Prix calledꦚ off due to 🎉extreme flooding

Due for this weekend, the F1 at Imola was called off on Wednesday due to the extreme weather conditions in the whole region of Emi🌄lia Romagna🌺.

Flooding has resulted in eig♔ht people dying, with several more still mis𝄹sing.

Around 5,000 more people have been evacuated from the area, including some who were rescued from their roo📖ftops via helicopter.

Severe floods are widespread ac♍ross Italy's Emilia Romagna region aft🦄er heavy rains, with rescue operations underway

— Sky News (@SkyNews)

Fourteen ♎rivers have📖 burst their banks, flooding 23 towns.

"It's probꦇably been the worst night in the history of Romagna," Ravenna Mayor Michele de Pascale said to Italy's RAI public broadcaster. "Ravenna is unrecognisable for the damage it has suffered."

Mayor of Forli, Gian Luca Zattini, described his town✨ as "on its knees, devastated and in pa൩in" to AFP news agency.

The BBC reported that peo🎐ple in single-storey homes in Castel Bolognese needed to be rescued, while their mayor called the flooding “catastrophic”.

There is no electricity in Castel Bolognese♊, the BBC add.

People across the Emilia Romagna region ꦐare tak🙈ing shelter in schools and gyms.

"Those who live in areas close to watercourꦯses should move to higher floors," said Regional President🅰 Stefano Bonaccini.

Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni has held crisis 💟meetings but, in some areas, the quantity of rainfall e🌠xceeded the technology’s capability of recording it.