A car with no one driving comes downhill, throwing the iron fence of the kindergarten in Pile, a hamlet of L'Aquila to the ground, and in a few moments the kindergarten courtyard has turned into the most unsafe place for a child .
The car surprised the little ones as they played among the slides and the plastic merry-go-rounds.
Some escaped but others were overwhelmed, some trapped.
Among the six rescuers, one did not make it, despite attempts at resuscitation towards the hospital: the
death toll is of a 4-year-old child and another five injured
, one of whom is in a confidential prognosis.
A Passat swooped into the garden with a little boy no more than 10 years old inside.
His mother had left him alone in the car, parked in the street while she went to pick up her little brother from kindergarten, but the car quickly picked up speed downhill, perhaps accidentally unbridled by the boy himself or perhaps with the handbrake never activated. .
These hypotheses will have to be evaluated by the investigators.
At that moment there were over a dozen children in the kindergarten garden, when around 2.30 pm the car broke through the fence.
In addition to those run over, other children are in shock and have scratches that they got during the escape.
"It looked like a Dante's circle: when we arrived we found people crying in the street and the crying of the children that made our hearts stop. Around us the ambulances and the police cars, the sirens. We immediately ran inside. , making our way among the rescuers, a frightening and surreal scene ", a father of one of about forty school children tells in shock.
The child who died during the transport to the hospital was four years old.
Two 4-year-old girls were taken by helicopter rescue to the Gemelli polyclinic in Rome: one is in a reserved prognosis, the other is also stable and has spontaneous breathing: she has been subjected to tests and her current conditions are not serious.
Another child is at the Infant Jesus, in the capital.
For two twins, the investigations at the hospital in L'Aquila are still being completed, but they too are out of danger.
The woman who owns the car is being investigated as a hypothesis of a crime for road homicide.
In these hours a summit is underway at the police headquarters in L'Aquila in which the prosecutor Stefano Gallo, owner of the investigation, the head of the Mobile Danilo Di Laura, and the other investigators participate.
"We are doing our best with maximum commitment," said Gallo.
"I am deeply saddened - said the mayor of L'Aquila,
Pierluigi Biondi
, immediately after visiting the site of the accident -, I cannot even imagine the pain that the parents of the injured children are feeling. As a father and as a representative of the institutions I am appalled. It is terrible news: we hope and pray that the toll does not worsen. "
City mourning proclaimed.
"We learned this tragic news paradoxically while we were celebrating the first child born in Fontecchio, in the internal areas, after the approval of the depopulation law; the first born who received the contribution to the birth rate. We are all shocked and close to the pain of the families. . We hope that this tragedy does not worsen, we are in contact with the health professionals to constantly monitor the evolution of the situation ", declared the president of the Abruzzo Region
Marco Marsilio.
"I hug with deep emotion the pain of families and the school community".
Thus the Minister of Education, Patrizio Bianchi.
The minister contacted the director of the institute to convey his closeness and condolences to her.
ANSA agency
Car in the garden asylum: Pezzopane, pain and dismay - Abruzzo
"With the heart and with the prayers for the children involved in the terrible accident outside the kindergarten in Pile".
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