Explosion in Cancello Scalo (Caserta), house collapses due to probable gas leak. The 74-year-old owner found alive under the rubble, her husband still missing
It would be one gas leak, according to a first reconstruction, the cause of the collapse of the house in the Cancello Scalo hamlet, in the municipality of San Felice a Cancello (Caserta), which took place just before 7 am today. According to what was hypothesized by the Carabinieri and the firefighters who intervened on the spot, the gas leak would have saturated one of the rooms of the house, in which they lived two spouses, both 74 years old. When they woke up, probably by turning on a light, the explosion occurred which caused the collapse of the entire building. The woman was found alive under the rubble, extracted and taken to hospital. While the searches for her husband are in progress. They are Mario Sgambato and his wife Giuseppina. Both retirees lived on the mezzanine floor. He is a volunteer in the cimunale civil protection. The volunteer wife in the nearby church of Sant’Alfonso Maria de ‘Liguori in Cancello Scalo.
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