The gas leak at the base of the explosion that took place last night in Ravanusa, in the Agrigento area, is still the most probable hypothesis for the collapse of the four-storey building in via Galilei. The latest balance speaks of three deaths - Pietro Carmina, Enza Zagarro and Liliana Minacori - and not four as initially communicated by the Civil Protection. While Rosa Carmina and Giuseppina Montana were extracted alive. You are still the missing.
The explosion could have been triggered by the elevator, explained the firefighters who together with the Civil Protection and the police are still trying to recover the survivors in what has been defined "a war scenario". The tenants rescued talked to the rescuers from under the heaps of household goods and once identified they were rescued. Other properties were also damaged.
An investigation has been opened on the tragedy, but the urgency is now to dig non-stop.
The gas is thought to have saturated the subsoil perhaps due to the rupture of a pipe caused by bad weather, but for Italgas a few days ago the checks were made and no leaks were found. It is a plant that is at least ten years old and the affected area is an area subject to landslides and landslides.
"I had a mandate from President Mario Draghi to inform him promptly - said the head of Civil Protection Fabrizio Curcio at a press conference in Ravanusa -. Nobody will be left alone. We must do everything to save lives and return loved ones to families". The rescue "is still in progress - he added - and therefore any consideration of the causes is premature. There are inspections in progress but the priority is to find the missing".
(Unioneonline / ss)
