One person has died and another was seriously injured by the collapse of considerable parts of the 13th century Torre dei Conti.
One person has died and another was seriously injured by the collapse of considerable parts of the 13th century Torre dei Conti, near the Colosseum and Forum.
Several of the upper floors of the Torre dei Conti, a High Middle Ages fortification commissioned by Pope Innocent III in 1203 for his noble family collapsed on Monday, burying workers engaged on the restoration of the building.
Several workers were rescued by fire brigades using ladder engines, but some workers were more seriously injured. One man is reported to be seriously injured, while another, a Romanian builder, was killed. Trapped under the rubble for 11 hours, rescuers dug down to the man and rushed him to hospital, but he was declared dead after resuscitation efforts failed.
The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs thanked the Roman emergency services for working “tirelessly” to attempt to save the man, and noted a second Romanian was among the others who were rescued successfully.
