“There has never been such a massacre here before’: anger and dismay after a construction site accident in Italy. The Pope expressed his condolences in a letter in which he also thanked the numerous helpers who took part in the rescue efforts.

The fire department was able to rescue three men alive from the rubble. “I fell into the void, it was hell,” one of the victims tells La Nazione the next morning. The accident occurred in the heart of the busy working class district of Novoli.