A boom late yesterday terrorized Palestro, in the province of Pavia.
An explosion occurred in a building in the municipality of Lomellina on the border with the province of Vercelli: an apparent gas leak, behind which, however, an attempted suicide was hidden .
A 44-year-old man, after sending a voice message on WhatsApp to his daughter, communicating his intentions to end it, opened the gas tap , which in a few minutes saturated his apartment, until causing the terrible explosion. .
The man was immediately rescued by the 118 operators and transported by helicopter to the Niguarda hospital in Milan: he is now hospitalized in the prognosis reserved for the center for severe burns, with wounds and burns on most of his body. At the moment it does not seem life threatening.
His two neighbors, a 71-year-old man and a 60-year-old wife, were also slightly bruised in the blast . They didn't need to be transferred to hospital.
The two apartments were declared uninhabitable by the fire brigade, with the spouses left homeless who spent the night at a friend's house. The firefighters managed to rescue the two dogs of the man who tried to kill himself, which were in the apartment at the time of the explosion.
(Unioneonline / D)
