Florence mourns dead in building site collapse. Mayor Dario Nardella led a minute's silence at 3 pm in Piazzadella Signoria.

Four people confirmed to have died after a concrete beam on the fourth floor of the Esselunga supermarket under construction gave way causing the structure to collapse. Three injured workers are all Romanian and aged 37, 48 and51. Their condition is not said to be life-threatening. Pope Francis also expressed his grief at the latest in a long spate of workplace deaths in Italy.