A three-story building collapsed around 8:30 a.m. in Rome's Gianicolense neighborhood, following an explosion likely caused by a gas leak.
The Carabinieri intervened on site, in via Vitellia at the intersection with via Pio Foa'. One person, a fifty-year-old of Scottish origins, was transported by 118 in red code to Sant'Eugenio after being extracted from the collapsed building.
According to reports, he suffered injuries to his legs and burns on 70% of his body. The search by firefighters and carabinieri continues to exclude that there are other people among the rubble. Several local police patrols are also on site to cordon off the area and close off roads.
"I heard a huge bang, I walk that road every day to take my son to school. Those walls are made of papier-mâché." Said a man who lives not far from the site of the explosion that occurred this morning in the Gianicolense neighborhood of Rome.
It's really a disaster what happened in Rome, people have to be careful when there are gas leaks. I don't know how something like this could happen, I hope there are no more people under the rubble.