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One killed as gales flail Italy

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(ANSA) - ROME, APR 13 - One person was killed as gale-force winds flailed Italy on Monday. The victim was 38-year-old worker Roberto Di Ponzio, who died instantly after being struck by a lamppost, toppled by strong winds, while he was using a crane to perform maintenance on a lighting system near a cemetery in Taranto. Elsewhere, strong sirocco winds halted hydrofoil services from Naples to the islands of Ischia and Procida, flights were diverted because of high winds from Bari to Brindisi an...