Three people died from the explosion
, due to causes under investigation,
on a tugboat moored in the port of Crotone
.
The victims are members of the crew of the boat, which flies a foreign flag.
A fourth person was injured and was hospitalized in the Crotone hospital.
There are no missing people,
according to reports from the firefighters of the provincial command,
who confirm that there were three deaths in the outbreak.
According to what has been ascertained, the four people initially reported missing had temporarily disembarked from the tug and were subsequently tracked down.
The bodies of two victims were thrown, due to the explosion, on the quay of the port, while the third body was found in the sea.
It would have occurred in the engine room of the tugboat
and not in a container, as it was first learned, the explosion.
To explode, according to what emerged from the first investigations of the firefighters,
was the cylinder of a welding machine that the victims were using to carry out some work
.
The rescue operations were coordinated by the provincial fire brigade commander of Crotone, engineer Giuseppe Bennardo.
