The bodies of four missing in the explosion in Ravanusa have been identified by the firefighters, who have been digging all night and are now trying to extract the remains. The bodies were all together, under the rubble of the four-story building that collapsed in the explosion on Saturday night. It is about Selene Pascariello, the woman in the ninth month of pregnancy, and her family: her husband Giuseppe Carmina and the parents of the latter, Angelo Carmina e Enza Zagarrio, who lived on the third floor. The young couple had visited the other two on Saturday evening and were in the apartment at 20.30, when the explosion occurred.
Ravanusa tragedy, the investigation into the causes of the disaster: the landslide, the failure of the pipes or the works never carried out
from our correspondent Alessia Candito
With the discovery, the victims of the disaster rise to seven. There are still two missing persons to be traced. The searches continued throughout the night, the firefighters never stopped, with the help of electric generators they worked, even with bare hands, among the debris. It will continue indefinitely.
Ravanusa tragedy, the explosion captured by a surveillance camera
It was the dog Luna of the Fire Brigade who identified, shortly after 6.30 this morning, the four lifeless bodies then extracted from the rubble in Ravanusa. Luna belongs to the canine unit of the Fire Brigade of Palermo. For now it has been accompanied on the rubble, since yesterday, to locate the missing. This morning the find.
Building collapses after explosion: 3 dead and 6 missing. Among the hypotheses, an explosion in the gas pipeline
at Alan David Scifo
