AFP - The waters of the Tiber in Rome hit a record level overnight, Italian authorities said Saturday, as a young man was feared drowned after falling into the swollen river.
  
Italian media reports said the man was Irish and had come to the Italian capital for a wedding. He was believed to have been drunk when he fell into the river while taking a photo.
  
Firemen in dinghies were searching the river for him early Saturday.
  
So far four people are known to have died in the bad weather which has buffeted the country since Wednesday. The latest victim was a young man killed in a car accident caused by the heavy rain, the national news agency ANSA said.
  
The river reached its maximum level at 1:00 am (0000 GMT) but the situation had "stabilised, although the spate is not over yet", the city's mayor Gianni Alemanno was quoted as saying Saturday by ANSA.
  
Emergency services were also working on trying to free three boats which had got stuck under one of the city's historic bridges, the Ponte Sant'Angelo below the landmark castle. They were also securing the moorings of pleasure craft and other boats which were adrift.
  
While Saturday morning was sunny in the Italian capital, after several days of rain and high winds, weathermen forecast more rainfall for Sunday.
  
On Thursday the head of the civil protection force Guido Bertolaso said the level of the Tiber in the past few days had not been seen for 40 years.
  
More rain fell in the night of Wednesday to Thursday in Rome than the average rainfall for the whole month of December, the weather centre said.