Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri said
Thursday that 12 people were injured when a stairway collapsed
at the Globe Theatre in the city's Villa Borghese park.
He said "five adults and seven kids" taking part in a school
trip had been hurt, adding that no one was in a life-threatening
condition.
Fire brigade sources said the stairway gave way as people were
on their way out after a show for school pupils.
Gualtieri said he had been in contact with the management of the
theatre, a reconstruction of the Elizabethan theatre of
Shakespeare's company, and was told that maintenance work had
been done on the stairway in question this summer.
He said the Globe would be closed and it was not certain when it
would reopen.
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