Pipeline explodes and four-storey building collapses: “At least 12 missing”. Among them children and a pregnant woman

Drama in Ravanusa, in the province of Agrigento.

A pipeline pipe exploded causing the collapse of a 4-storey building in via Trilussa and serious damage to at least two other buildings: at least 12 missing, including three children and a pregnant woman.

The firefighters of Canicattì, Agrigento and Licata are at work to tame the flames that have developed and search for the missing. On the spot also the carabinieri of Ravanusa and Licata.

The mayor of Ravanusa, Carmelo D'Angelo, has launched an appeal: "Anyone who has tank trucks and mechanical means give us a hand. It's a disaster." The request was accepted by numerous teams of volunteers from the Civil Protection, the firefighters and the Red Cross, coming from various municipalities in the Agrigento area.

THE RECONSTRUCTION - A roar broke the silence of Ravanusa, a town of over 10 thousand inhabitants 50 minutes by car from the capital, around 8.30 pm. The alarms of cars and some houses began to sound while the terrified inhabitants took to the streets from the buildings in via Galilei and the nearby streets.

A horrible scene before their eyes: the high flames that rose from the rubble of a building, while rubble, pieces of frames and doors were thrown tens of meters from the site of the explosion.

The electricity was cut throughout the area where hundreds of people flocked: "Mamma mia, mamma mia, a disaster".

"This is the moment for help - said the prosecutor of Agrigento Luigi Patronaggio -. Tomorrow morning, when the special team of firefighters from Palermo will intervene, the Public Prosecutor will also intervene. At the moment we have news of missing persons, we must wait and understand".

(Unioneonline / D)