A collapse occurred this morning on a construction site in Florence
, in via Mariti, on the outskirts of the city where the construction of a supermarket is underway:
a retaining wall appears to have collapsed
.
There were
8 people involved
, according to what the president of the Tuscany Region, Eugenio Giani, announced on social media.
"Our regional system is intervening due to a scaffolding collapse on a construction site in Florence in via Mariti - writes Giani -. At the moment there are 8 people involved.
"Unfortunately there are people without life"
due to the accident that occurred on the construction site in Florence.
Giani reports this, confirming that "three people were extracted alive and transported to our hospital in Careggi".
"All forces - he adds - are working at their maximum to extract another 3 people currently under the rubble".
Our health workers, firefighters and police forces are on site.
The accident occurred on a large construction site for the construction of an Esselunga supermarket, in the area of the former military bakery.
The three workers extracted alive were taken to Careggi hospital, two in code red and one in yellow according to what was learned.
There would have been a
"major collapse of one of the main pylons"
at the construction site.
This is what the firefighters who intervened with teams made up of ordinary personnel and Usar light reported.
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