Death toll of building collapse near Naples climbs to four

23.09.2024 [15:08]
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Baku, September 23, AZERTAC

The death toll of Sunday's collapse of a two-story apartment building in the town of Saviano, near Naples, has climbed to four after the body of an elderly woman was extracted from the rubble overnight, according to ANSA.

The woman's two grandchildren, a four-year-old girl and a six-year-old boy, and the siblings' mother also died in the disaster.

It had initially been reportedly that the body of the grandmother had been pulled out of the rubble on Sunday but it subsequently emerged that that corpse actually belonged to the mother.

The children's father and their two-year-old brother were pulled out of the rubble alive. The father is in a critical condition in hospital while the boy is not in a life-threatening condition, sources said.

It is suspected that the explosion of a gas cylinder caused the building to collapse.

Death toll of building collapse near Naples climbs to four

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