Moments of fear this evening in a house in Martiniana Po , in the province of Cuneo , where part of a house collapsed following the explosion of a gas cylinder. The provisional toll is one dead and two injured. The victim is a disabled man, who lived with his family. Two women, however, were saved.
Three other people who lived in the house, the husband of the youngest woman and their two children, were outside at the time of the accident: they had gone out to have dinner at a pizzeria. The survivors were rescued by two neighbors, who rushed to the scene after hearing the explosion, and were taken to Turin by helicopter for poisoning.
The two who helped them were also injured and had to be hospitalized in Savigliano. The husband and children of one of the women, who heard the explosion from the nearby pizzeria, were taken to the hospital with a green code due to shock.
(Online Union)
