Gas leak in the house, then the collapse: two deaths in the Neapolitan area

Two elderly people dead and another woman seriously injured : this is the dramatic toll of an explosion caused by a gas leak in the Neapolitan area .

It happened in Torre del Greco, this night around 2 in a building in via Volpicelli, a peripheral artery of the city located close to the area of the so-called 'pinetine' of the Vesuvius National Park.

The gas leak - according to the first investigations carried out by firefighters and Municipality technicians who arrived on site together with the mayor Luigi Mennella - would have started from an apartment on the first floor of the building and would have caused the explosion which caused a wall of the building to fall. apartment located next door .

(Unioneonline/vl)