Balcony collapse at Santa Maria la Carità: three discharged, one injured still hospitalized.

Three of the four family members injured in the collapse of a small balcony in Santa Maria la Carità have been released from hospital. The accident occurred on Sunday, October 11th, in a house undergoing renovation on Via del Canneto.

Antonio Alfano, 27, remains hospitalized, having been transferred to the Ospedale del Mare in Naples with critical illness. He underwent splenic surgery; he also suffered facial fractures, but his life is not in danger.

Alessia Passarella, 23, who had been hospitalized at Cardarelli Hospital for a fractured pelvis, and Maria and Giuseppe Alfano, aged 38 and 67, who had been taken to Castellammare di Stabia Hospital, were discharged.

According to initial reports, the four were on the mezzanine balcony when the structure collapsed. The building was uninhabited and undergoing renovations; the cause of the collapse is still under investigation.