Two people were injured in an explosion that occurred this morning shortly after 9:00 a.m. in a four-story building in Perugia . No one is missing, and six people, all residents of the building, have been evacuated.
The worst off was a 47-year-old woman found by firefighters lying in the garden . She was in the fourth-floor apartment where the explosion occurred and fell from the window. Resuscitated on the scene by emergency responders, she was taken by ambulance, with a code red, to the city hospital of Santa Maria della Misericordia. Her condition is very serious.
The other injured person is a 52-year-old man who was in the adjacent apartment: he was taken to the same hospital with critical condition, but despite having sustained injuries, his condition is not very serious.
A visibly distressed neighbor, Simone, told reporters that he saw the woman leaning out of the window of the fourth-floor apartment where the explosion occurred and heard someone shouting, "Don't jump, don't jump." "When I turned back to her," the neighbor explained, "I realized she was gone. They took her away while she was still alive. The bang was very loud, as if a bomb had exploded. At first, I didn't understand what had happened, then I saw a cloud of smoke and realized something bad had happened."
Following the explosion, numerous pieces of glass, wood, and debris ended up on the balconies and roofs of surrounding buildings. An entire window was found on the roof of a nearby building, lower than the one that exploded.
Firefighters ordered the immediate evacuation of the building. Three firefighter teams, law enforcement, local police, the Civil Protection Department of the Municipality of Perugia, and volunteers from the Regional Civil Protection Department responded to the scene. Mayor Vittoria Ferdinandi and Public Works Councilor Francesco Zuccherini were also present.
Meanwhile, investigations have begun to determine the cause. Neighbors explained to reporters on site that they had smelled gas in recent days, while the residents themselves had not noticed any cracks or anomalies on the roof, whose partial collapse—as the Carabinieri explained—is certainly a result of the explosion.
(Unioneonline)