Cause unknown: a crater suddenly formed in the parking lot of a hospital in Naples.
Vehicles were torn down, apparently nobody was injured.
Naples - Suddenly there was a bang - then the floor opened up: Parts of a hospital
parking lot
in
Naples
collapsed on Friday and tore parked vehicles with it.
A hole 20 meters deep and 2,000 square meters in size yawns where they stood.
Smoke rose from the crater at first.
The hospital was a center for
Covid19
*
during the first Corona wave in Italy
.
Only about six infected people are currently being treated there.
But they too should have felt the consequences of the collapse: Immediately after the collapse, the power supply collapsed.
Crater in front of the hospital in Naples: what could be the cause?
It is a mystery to the
authorities
: How did this deep hole in the middle of the city come into being - without any prior notice?
The cause research is ongoing.
It only seems clear that the soil conditions in the
southern Italian city play
a role.
"Now we have to do geological surveys and see how other parts of the area are doing," said Vincenzo De Luca, Campania Regional President.
Luck in misfortune despite everything for the residents of
Naples:
In the afternoon, after careful checks, the fire brigade was able to report that no one had been dragged down with them.
So there are no injuries either.
#Italy - This Friday, January 8th, a huge chasm formed in front of the Naples Hospital in the morning that caused the 20,000m2 parking lot to collapse.
Firefighters look for potential victims https://t.co/7j0o8BZS94
- Sandra Winter (@ example_1000) January 8, 2021
Corona patients relocated: the station had to be evacuated because electricity and water could fail
The power supply in the hospital is currently maintained by generators.
Only one area where
Corona
* patients spend their quarantine had to be cleared.
Here the authorities fear that the
electricity and water supply
can no longer be maintained.
The Italian Minister of Agriculture Teresa Bellanova described it as “incomprehensible” that such a hole in the ground could open up near a public facility.
The public prosecutor's office has started the investigation.
(
dpa / kat
)
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