The death toll of Sunday's collapse
of a two-story apartment building in the town of Saviano, near
Naples, has climbed to four after the body of an elderly woman
was extracted from the rubble overnight.
The woman's two grandchildren, a four-year-old girl and a
six-year-old boy, and the siblings' mother also died in the
disaster.
It had initially been reportedly that the body of the
grandmother had been pulled out of the rubble on Sunday but it
subsequently emerged that that corpse actually belonged to the
mother.
The children's father and their two-year-old brother were pulled
out of the rubble alive.
The father is in a critical condition in hospital while the boy
is not in a life-threatening condition, sources said.
It is suspected that the explosion of a gas cylinder caused the
building to collapse.
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