Slide Threat Spurs Evacuation of Town

One of the towns devastated by mudslides that killed at least 148 people in the country’s south last week was evacuated after torrential rains hit the area again, officials said. Residents were evacuated from Quindici, where 11 people died, even as rescuers searched mounds of hardened mud for more victims. Television reports showed residents and civil protection workers leaving the town by car as alarm sirens sounded to warn of the risk of more mudslides. In the hardest-hit town of Sarno, where 125 people died, about 1,000 people were packed and ready in the event of an evacuation.