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STORY: At least one person died when flash floods swept through the northwestern Italian city of Genoa overnight on Friday, smashing shop windows, washing aside cars and leaving many streets knee deep in muddy water.
Three years after a previous flood killed at least seven people in the medieval port city, the Bisagno, one of the biggest rivers in Genoa, burst its banks shortly before midnight after days of heavy rain.
The floods underline Italy's chronic vulnerability to natural disaster, due both to its mountainous and unstable geography and the poor state of its public infrastructure in many areas.
As day broke and maintenance crews went to work to clear debris from the streets, there were cars washed up into chaotic heaps or sunk into huge holes that had opened up in the roads, with thick layers of mud reaching high up on many walls.
Emergency services said the body of a 57-year-old man had been recovered after he had