Clean up efforts are underway in the Italian city of Messina following severe floods

Local officials reported a month's worth of rain fell in just four hours.

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00:00Clean-up efforts are underway in the Italian city of Messina in Sicily after heavy rainfall

00:06caused severe flooding and landslides.

00:09Italy's National Fire Service said it was called out to more than a hundred storm-related

00:14incidents, which included rescuing motorists trapped in flooded underpasses.

00:20The service said the situation was critical in the Orto Liuzzo and San Saba areas of Messina,

00:26where firefighters had to use inflatable boats to rescue residents trapped in their homes.