Summer storms

An Italian army helicopter carries a man to safety a day after mudslides hit the village of Giampilieri near the Sicilian city of Messina October 3, 2009. The death toll from rainstorms and landslides in Sicily rose to 20 on Saturday and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said the number of victims could more than double as 30 people were still missing. Rescue workers dug through mud around Messina where landslides followed Thursday's heavy rain, destroying houses and washing away roads, but hopes of finding more survivors fell by the hour. Eighty people were injured and hundreds left homeless.