gas leak in Milan, three dead and nine wounded serious two children aged 7 and 11 years old – The Republic

The 8:56 on a Sunday morning. Rainy weather ,: some are still in bed, who is starting to breakfast. Then hell: an explosion that rips the palace, breaks glass, hurts my eardrums. Then the fear that remains in the eye for hours. Four minutes later, at 9, the building that overlooks Via Brioschi in Milan, on a private road Portoferraio, is semicrollata, residents are in the street, in your pajamas, terrified. “I thought of a bomb,” said one. Firefighters immediately speak to a gas leak, the power of attorney excludes voluntary gesture and investigates for culpable disaster. Three dead and nine wounded. You then count the victims: three dead and nine wounded, four were children, one is a pregnant woman. Two girls aged 7 and 11 are serious, have burns the limbs and face and were sedated by doctors as soon as you arrive at the Center burns unit of Niguarda. The largest has burns on 20-25 percent of the body, the smallest, on 40-45 percent, of some profound degree. And is that in the most severe conditions. According to doctors are not life threatening, but for the bulletin will have to wait until tomorrow. Their mother did not have she done: was 43 years old, was named Micaela Masella and was the director of external relations of a dance school. The father of the girls, 51, was burned and was also led him to Niguarda. The other two victims were two lovers of 27 years: Riccardo Maglianesi was doing a master’s degree at Bocconi, while Chiara Magnamassa, shoe designer, worked for some time in a store downtown. It appears that the outbreak has occurred nell’appartemento where these two boys were guests of the family and who has then swept the apartment of the two girls, destroying it completely. In the course of the very first operations were slightly wounded also a firefighter and three police officers. dig through the rubble. The explosion was heard throughout the district – from Steelyard in Ticino, from Porta Romana to Barona – exploded 200 meters away glasses. For hours firefighters have dug in the rubble with their hands and with the help of dogs to make sure there were no other people buried under the rubble.

the causes . The first conclusions of verifications talk of a possible gas leak that occurred – as already mentioned – in the house where they were guests of the two dead boys, and in particular from the kitchen stove. The surrounding streets of Via Brioschi were closed to traffic to intervene relief. Numerous emergency vehicles of firefighters, police officers and police sealed off the area to allow relief to work without hindrance.

“There was a smell of gas” . To say this is Andrea Rizza, 27 year-old carpenter who was a guest of friends in the building opposite: “I smelled gas, very strong, then a bang.” The 27 year old says he was “awakened by a stone came through the window and ended up between her legs.” But he has remained miraculously unscathed, although the bedroom where he slept (was twenty meters away from the explosion palace) was devastated. “Then I looked out the window – he said – and I saw the girl who was walking on the ruins. Only then I realized.”

“it seemed a bomb. “ another resident described the outbreak as well:” I thought of an attack, but then I realized it was coming from quell’abitazione “. The man explained that the building was recently restored: “I do not know what might have happened, maybe – he suggested – a gas leak, maybe someone in the house had a stove.”

Pisapia: “Mourning citizen.” The condolences of Renzi. The mayor of Milan, Giuliano Pisapia, speaks of “a terrible tragedy that affects our entire community. On behalf of all the Milanese express my deepest sympathy for the victims and the proximity to all the wounded. Then we proclaim from today a day of mourning for the day when you will hold the funeral of the people who lost their lives “. Pisapia, who received a chiamqata of Renziche Prime Minister expressed his condolences and inquired about the condition of the wounded, he adds that “the City has already turned to find an immediate solution for families whose homes were damaged by the explosion and all their other needs. i also want to thank all the rescuers: firefighters, ambulances, local police and law enforcement agencies that are now occurring on the blast site.

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Three buildings damaged and 50 families evacuated. at the end of a day of testing the Municipality spreads a note with an initial assessment of the damage caused by the blast.

uninhabitable buildings are three for a total of fifty apartments are 50 households that currently have had to leave their homes, including 21 families living in the building where the explosion occurred. They are 17 families, a total of 56 persons (including 9 children), who have accepted the hospitality of the City hotel. Other families have preferred to accommodate family and friends at their homes.

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milan area 5

a gas explosion

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Starring:

micaela masella

riccardo Maglianesi