Tourists swamp Italian villages with crowds 'trapping locals in homes'

Tourists have swamped Italian villages by blocking the streets with crowds and cameras and trapping residents in their homes and causing renewed local outcry. As temperatures rise, tourists have begun to infest the streets of the quaint villages that line the Amalfi Coast, knocking peeling shoulders against each other and clattering overfilled rucksacks into postcard stands. Footage online shows a narrow passageway in Positano in south-western Italy filled with a 'sea of tourists'.