"According to accounts from [rescue] volunteers, the child slipped from the grandmother's arms. The woman was then swept away by the water while trying to hold onto the baby."
"Three family members managed to save themselves by clinging to the pillars of a porch [...] while the grandmother and her 5-month-old grandson were carried away," he added.
Flash floods followed hours of torrential rain, which caused the Sterza river to break its banks in multiple sections.
The house the family stayed in was hit by a 2.5-metre-high "flood wave".
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