The bodies of the two people who were still missing after the collapse of the buildings in Ravanusa, in the Agrigento area, were recovered late yesterday evening. The toll of the tragedy therefore worsens, the victims are nine. Calogero and Giuseppe Carmina, father and son aged 59 and 33, were under a mountain of stones, iron and rubble. Three days ago, however, Calogero's wife, Gioacchina Minacori, was found lifeless. A destroyed family whose only survivor is the 59-year-old sister, Sister Agata, who tries to comfort her nephew's wife, Eliana, left alone to look after two small children.
The relatives of the victims yesterday received the condolences of Pope Francis: in a telegram signed by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the pontiff expressed "feelings of intense participation in the pain of the entire population" and the "suffering of so many people, also caused by the huge damage that weighs on many ", manifesting" his heartfelt closeness, ensuring in particular his prayers of suffrage for the victims ", and" appreciation for those who did their utmost in the rescue operations ".
The investigation opened by the Prosecutor's Office goes on, the file for now against unknowns hypothesizes the crimes of disaster and manslaughter. While Italgas announced that it had received "3 reports" of gas leaks in Ravanusa concerning "the Calabria, San Francesco and Galileo routes", but "following checks, no leaks were found for two of them. ", while" for a third the technicians have replaced a short section of small diameter piping, placed at the edge of the roadway ". "The reports - emphasizes Italgas - have all been verified by expanding the control of the network also to all the neighboring streets".
Today in Agrigento it is city mourning.
(Unioneonline / ss)
