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 had said "eight people in all
were involved in the disaster".
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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