MATTHEW VELLA
THE Maltese islands will be un-
der the influence of an intense
storm system that is developing
in the south of Italy and Sicily
today and tomorrow.
Heavy north-eastern winds
and floods are expected for the
next 24 hours, as winds will be
gearing up to force 7 North-to-
North East this evening and will
start to go down on tomorrow
evening.
Severe wind and rain pum-
melled the area around Catania,
causing severe flooding on the
weekend, after a rare Mediter-
ranean hurricane slammed into
Sicily and Calabria.
A 67-year-old man was swept
away by floodwaters Sunday
and later found dead, the Italian
news agency Ansa reported.
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ANALYSIS PAGES 6 & 7
General elections
PAGE 3
Rare Mediterranean storm around Sicily
'No code red for Malta yet',
Met Office says of hurricane
Labour MPs
refuse to
condemn
Konrad Mizzi
PAC no-shows
How Abela
toyed with
cry-wolf PN
NICOLE MEILAK
LABOUR MPs on the public
accounts committee (PAC) in
parliament have again refused
to condemn Konrad Mizzi's no-
shows, despite being called to
testify several times before.
This week, Konrad Mizzi
wrote to the committee that,
due to planned travels, he would
be unavailable to testify before 3
November.
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Robert Abela
Weather forecast
for Malta this week
will be stormy but
Met Office not
looking at issuing a
code red warning
Eye of the storm: Malta is situated at the edge of the rare Mediterranean hurricane formation
