Three floors of a Rome
apartment building by the River Tiber collapsed early on Friday.
No one was killed or injured as the building was evacuated after
a resident heard strange noises and raised the alarm. The
building collapsed before the eyes of 10 families who were
evacuated, sources said. The incident may have been caused by
building work in an apartment, which damaged the structure and
caused the top three floors, the fifth, sixth and seventh, to
cave in. Construction of the building was completed in 1939. "An
investigation is under way," said Raffaele Clemente, the
commander of Rome's municipal police. "It seems that work was
being done and we have to see what type of interaction there was
between the work and the collapse. We'll know something in the
early afternoon".
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