One dead and 6 injured . This is the balance of the explosion that took place yesterday morning in the countryside of Montecarlo, a medieval village on the hills in the province of Lucca, in a two-story building that collapsed in via del Marginone.
The victim is a 70-year-old man, the injured are his 71-year-old wife and a 46-year-old man who lived upstairs (both are in serious condition), as well as four other people: a woman, her two children aged 9 and 12 and her mother.
The cause of the accident is believed to be a gas leak . The prosecutor has launched an investigation, we need to understand what happened.
The commander of the Lucca fire brigade Calogero Daidone, who rushed to the scene together with about forty firefighters of all specialties, spoke of an "explosion, there was certainly an explosion" seen as "the building is placed on the ground".
Last October, the 27th, another explosion in a house in Torre, in the municipality of Lucca, cost the lives of a couple, Luca Franceschi, 69, and Lyudmyla Perets, 44, and Debora Pierini, 26 : the latter, eight months pregnant, after being pulled alive from the rubble, had been given birth by emergency caesarean section. The young woman then died two weeks later from severe burns.
(Unioneonline/ss)
