Huge landslide leaves Sicilian homes teetering on cliff edge as 1,500 people are evacuated

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited a southern town in Sicily on Wednesday that has been left teetering on the edge of a cliff after days of heavy rains from a cyclone triggered a huge landslide that brought down properties and forced the evacuation of over 1,500 people.

The landslide in Niscemi, a town in the southwest of the island, spanned 2.5 miles. Images showed cars and structures that had fallen 22 yards off the newly formed cliff, while many other homes remain perched perilously on the cliff edge. Civil protection crews have created a 164-yard wide “no go zone” in the town, which is just inland from the coastal city of Gela.

“The entire hill is collapsing onto the plain of Gela,” civil protection chief Fabio Ciciliano