• Will 🌜F1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola be rescheduled?
• Emilia Romagna Grand Prix called o▨ff due to extreme floodi𝐆ng

Due for this weekend, the F1 at Imola was called off on Wednesday due to the extre🔯me weather conditions in the whole region ofཧ Emilia Romagna.

Flooding has resulted in eight peo🍷ple dying, with several mo♒re still missing.

Arou💮nd 5,000 more people have been evacuated from the area, including some who w♍ere rescued from their rooftops via helicopter.

Severe floods are ღwidespread across Italy's Emilia 🍸Romagna region after heavy rains, with rescue operations underway

— Sky News (@SkyNews)

Fourteen rive🍌rs have burst their banks, floಌoding 23 towns.

"It's probably been the worst night in the history of Romagna," Ravenna Mayor Michele de Pascale said to Italy's RAI public broadcaster. "Ravenna is unrec🌳ognisable for the dama🐻ge it has suffered."

Mayor of Forli, Gian Luca Zattini, de🌟scribed his town as "on its knees, devastated and in pain" to AFP news agency.

The BBC reported that people in single-storey homes in Castel Bolognese needed to be rescued, while their mayor called the flooding “c✃atastrophic”.

There is no elec⭕tricity in Castel Bologne𝕴se, the BBC add.

People across the Emilia Romagna region a🅺re taking shelter in schools ๊and gyms.

"Those who live 🍸in areas close to watercourses 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 exceeded the tec🅷hnology’s capability of recording it.