A landslide hit the Apennine Mountains in central Italy on Saturday night, causing the destruction of an entire building and the evacuation of 60 people, media reports said on Sunday. Only five families were able to return to their homes on Sunday after their houses were deemed safe, while the Civil Protection will continue monitoring the situation and assessing the actual damage to other nearby buildings, according to state television Rai. The landslide, caused by the weekend's heavy rainfall, occurred in the town of Vado di Monzuno, near Bologna in the Emilia- Romagna region. However, in previous weeks the land had already started to slip because of the persisting rain and many residents were transferred elsewhere as precaution measures. The evacuated people were hosted either by their parents, friends or in hotels in the area. Government teams and volunteers are at work to restore the main highway damaged by the mud debris and recover gas infrastructures in the houses. The Emilia-Romagna civil protection director, Demetro Egidi, on Sunday morning visited the area, assuring the residents that everything possible will be done to help them. In the meantime, the water level of the Po River is being monitored to avoid eventual floods. Bad weather and poor infrastructure have caused a series of disasters over the past few months. In April a small regional train derailed in northern Italy's mountainous region of Alto Adige after an avalanche hit the railway, causing at least 11 deaths and leaving tens of others injured. In the last months a series of mudslides and floods struck southern towns of the country, while a rock falling off Ventotene island's sea cliff in April led to the death of two Roman girls on a school trip. Civil protection chief Guido Bertolaso has repeatedly urged the creation of a national construction plan aimed at securing buildings from natural calamities and asked the local authorities to intervene in order to assess the risk levels of all Italian cities and urban agglomerates. 