Three workers are dead, three are injured but not in a life threatening condition and two are missing feared dead after a structural collapse in a Florence supermarket construction site on Friday, civil protection regional pointwoman Monia Monni said.
The collapse occurred Friday morning at a construction site in Florence, in Via Mariti, on the outskirts of the city where a supermarket is being built: a retaining wall reportedly collapsed.
Tuscany Governor Eugenio Giani said eight people in all were involved in the disaster, with two workers taken to hospital in code yellow.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on social media said on social media: "On my own behalf and on behalf of the Government, I express my condolences for the victims of the collapse of a girder on a building site in Florence.
"I follow with apprehension the evolution of the situation and I thank all those who are participating in the search for the missing and in the rescue operations for the injured.
"Our deepest condolences to the families affected by this terrible tragedy".
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