Flash floods in Italian gorge leave at least eight hikers dead

Search for missing people continues after heavy rainfall causes flooding in deep mountain gorge in Pollino national park

At least eight people were killed in southern Italy on Monday when the level of a raging white-water creek in a deep mountain gorge swelled suddenly after heavy rainfall upstream, officials said.

The national civil protection department said 18 people were rescued and six of those were injured in the flash flooding of water in the Calabria region.

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