• Will F1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix♑ at Imola be rescheduled?
• Emilia Rღomagna Grand Prix ca♛lled off due to extreme flooding

Due for this weekend, the F1 at Imola was called off on Wednesday due to the extreme weather conditions in the whole🐻 region of Emilia Romagna.

Flooding has resulted in eight peo𓄧ple dying, with several more still missing.

Around 5,000 more people have been evacuated from the area, including some who were rescued from their rooftops🎶 via helicopter.

Severe floods are widespread across Italy's E♛milia Ro♛magna region after heavy rains, with rescue operations underway

— Sky News (@SkyNews)

Fourteen rivers have bur�🔥�st their banks, flooding 23 towns.

"It's probably been the worst night in the history of Romagna," Ravenna Mayor Michele de Pascale said to Ita𒐪ly's RAI public broadca🥀ster. "Ravenna is unrecognisable for the damage it has suffered."

Mayor of Forli, Gian Luca Zattini, described his town as "on its knees, devastated and iܫn pain" to A✅FP news agency.

The BBC reported that people in single-storey homes in Castel Bolognese needed to be rescued, while their mayor called the flooding “catastr𒆙ophic”.

There is no electricity in Castel Bologne🔥se, the BBC add.

People across the Emilia Romagna region are taking shelter in scho𓆉ols and gyms.

"Those who liv꧒e in areas close to watercourses sho✃uld move to higher floors," said Regional President Stefano Bonaccini.

Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni🎃 has held crisis meetings but, in some areas, the quantity of rainfall exceeded the technology’s capabi𒁏lity of recording it.