Two elderly people dead, another woman seriously injured in an explosion due to a gas leak.
It happened in
Torre del Greco
, in the province of Naples, this night around 2 in a building in via Volpicelli, a peripheral artery of the city located close to the area of the so-called pine forests of the Vesuvius National Park.
The gas leak - according to the first investigations carried out by firefighters and municipal technicians who arrived on site together with the mayor Luigi Mennella - would have started from an apartment on the first floor of the building and would have caused the explosion which caused a wall of the building to fall. apartment located next door.
The gas leak in the kitchen of the apartment next door caused a strong explosion and the collapse of the bedroom wall.
Rodolfo Iovine and Anna Pagano, these are the names of the victims, were overwhelmed by the rubble in the bed where they slept in their house on the slopes of Vesuvius.
Anna Pagano's sister was seriously injured and transferred to the burn center at the Cardarelli hospital in Naples.
After the technicians' checks, the building was declared unusable and the two families residing in the homes on the ground floor were also evacuated.
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