A 38-year-old workman plunged to his death from an pylon in southern Italy Friday as he tried to repair electrical power lines damaged by storms that have already claimed five lives this week.
The workman was killed instantly in Ponte Valentino near the southern city of Benevento in the Campania region, which has been battered by storms and torrential rain in recent days.
Five people died in central and southern Italy earlier this week as the violent rainstorms caused flooding and sinkholes and several rivers burst their banks.
The Campania region has been one of the worst affected and as recently as on Friday residents in areas near the city of Caserta were advised to leave their homes and schools were closed amid fears the river Volturno could burst its banks.
Roads and farmland flooded when the Volturno river overflowed its banks in several places.
Also on Friday, heavy rains flooded basements and roads and uprooted trees in and around the port city of Taranto in the southern Italian region of Puglia.
