A building collapses in the Caserta area: a woman extracted alive from the rubble, her husband dead

A building collapsed in Cancello Scalo, a fraction of the municipality of San Felice a Cancello, in the province of Caserta. The toll is for one victim.

The firefighters arrived immediately on the spot and started digging in the rubble, where a 74-year-old woman was trapped with her husband, while the other residents had managed to escape.

Rescuers dug a tunnel and managed to reach the elderly woman, found alive and rescued after hours. After a while the woman's husband was found, unfortunately lifeless.

At the origin of what happened there could be a gas leak that caused an explosion.

(Unioneonline / ss-L)