Cars floated down village streets and water engulfed vehicles
Cars floated down village streets and water engulfed vehicles
A freak storm has battered an Italian holiday hotspot - with torrential rain triggering severe flooding and turning roads into raging rivers.

Dramatic footage posted to social media show roads have been turned into raging rivers, with cars floating down village streets and water engulfing vehicles.

The footage was taken in the towns of Agrigento and the San Leone, whose residents have been unable to leave their homes.

At least one person is thought to have been swept away in the floods.

Local authorities believe she disappeared today while trying to leave her car, which had become stuck because of the torrential rains.

Emergency services are still searching for her.



It comes after extreme rainfall flooded Ibiza with footage showing roads becoming rivers as the aftermath of Hurricane Gabrielle battered the island.

Jaw-dropping videos show streets transformed into rivers, cars swept away by murky torrents, and lightning striking as the violent weather unleashed chaos across towns and cities.

Videos circulating online show holidaymakers who travelled to the island at this time of the year to avoid the crowds complaining that their beach clubs are underwater.

The terrifying scenes are a result of the aftermath of Hurricane Gabrielle which transformed into an extratropical storm now called ex-Gabrielle, plunging the Balearic Islands, Murcia and the Valencia regions into chaos.