(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 22 - One worker is dead and another
missing after an accident at excavations for a new Naples metro
line on Wednesday, the latest in a spate of fatal workplace
accidents in Italy.
Another man is injured.
The workers were engulfed when earth gave way du,ring work on
the line between Capodichino, where the city airport is, and
Poggioreale, where one of its prisons is.
It is the latest in a long string of fatal workplace accidents
in Italy that has spurred union protests.
Five men died after inhaling toxic gas in a sewer network near
Palermo earlier this month, and seven died in a hydro power
plant blast near Bologna last month. (ANSA).
1 worker dead, 1 missing in accident at Naples metro dig
Ground gave way at Capodichino-Poggioreale line site