ANSA
Two killed as gales flail Italy
By ANSA

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 13 - Two people were killed as gale-force winds flailed Italy on Monday. A 38-year-old worker, Roberto Di Ponzio, died 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. A 16-year-old girl was killed by a tree felled by high winds at Bisceglie north of Bari. Elsewhere, strong sirocco winds halted hydrofoil services from Naples to the islands of Ischia and Procida, flig...