{"id":323193,"date":"2026-01-27T09:40:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323193"},"modified":"2026-01-27T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:40:55","slug":"over-1000-people-evacuated-after-landslide-in-sicily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323193","title":{"rendered":"Over 1,000 people evacuated after landslide in Sicily"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2026\/01\/26\/image-355026-1769439295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"294\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>ROME, Jan 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; More than 1,000 people were evacuated in\u00a0Sicily after a four-kilometre section of cliff crumbled during a\u00a0storm, leaving houses perched perilously on the edge, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Land was continuing to give way due to rain that has soaked the area in\u00a0recent days, said the mayor of the southern hill town of Niscemi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No deaths or injuries have been reported following the landslide, which took\u00a0place on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The situation continues to worsen because further collapses have been\u00a0recorded,&#8221; mayor Massimiliano Conti told local news on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Footage taken on Monday by the Local Team video agency showed a narrow\u00a0vertical section of cliff falling away, causing a building that had already\u00a0been ripped apart to further collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The front end of a car was visible next to it, its two tyres suspended in the\u00a0air over the edge of the cliff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The landslide covered the road below leading into town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conti said local authorities were working with police, fire and civil\u00a0protection units to assess the next steps, including the resumption of\u00a0school, which was cancelled on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The situation is dire,&#8221; said the mayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Italy&#8217;s civil protection unit said all residents in a four-kilometre radius\u00a0of the landslide had been evacuated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Niscemi, which has a population of more than 27,000 people, is located about\u00a028 kilometres inland from the southern coastal city of Gela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coastal areas of Sicily were hit last week by Storm Harry, damaging seaside\u00a0roads and residences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The region&#8217;s president, Renato Schifani, estimated the cost of the damage\u00a0cost at 740 million euros. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME, Jan 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; More than 1,000 people were evacuated in\u00a0Sicily after a four-kilometre section of cliff crumbled during a\u00a0storm, leaving houses perched perilously on the edge, authorities said. Land was continuing to give way due to rain that has soaked the area in\u00a0recent days, said the mayor of the southern hill town of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":323194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323195,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323193\/revisions\/323195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/323194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}