The death toll of the tragic explosion in the Agrigento area rises to nine. Also involved nine canine units to find father and son
It was not supposed to be there, Giuseppe Carmina. He lived with his wife in the neighboring village but on Saturday evening he had gone to his father to leave the old Tipo to get the newer and more beautiful 500 L to use on Sunday.
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He had called my father-in-law Calogero and warned him that he would come to change the car and to bring him the shopping, his wife Eliana, distraught with grief, recounts. In these days she has never left the place of the disaster, assisted by two nuns and a psychologist. Until yesterday, when Calogero and Giuseppe Carmina, father and son, 59 and 33 years old, were found in the garage under a mountain of stones, iron and rubble. That is, under the building that exploded in Ravanusa, in the Agrigento area. Calogero’s lifeless body was inside the garage, Giuseppe’s just outside. When he arrived at the house, Giuseppe will have called him and his father will have come down from inside, as always. And maybe when he turned on the garage light it all blew up. This is the hypothesis. It took three days of uninterrupted work by the Fire Brigade to locate and extract them.
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Two days ago, instead, the lifeless body of Gioacchina Calogera Minacori, Calogero’s wife. So of this unfortunate family only Sister Agata remains, Giuseppe’s sister, who in these very painful hours, wrapped in her white habit, tried to comfort Eliana, who was left alone to look after two small children. Giuseppe and Calogero were the last two missing in the gas massacre. Final balance: nine dead and two survivors, the women extracted alive from the rubble in the early hours. A balance to which we must also add the sad observation that just today Selene Pagliarello, the thirty-year-old nurse on whom the autopsy was performed, would have given birth to her first child: she would have called him Samuele.
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The disaster saw four buildings collapsed and another 4 gutted by the explosion, in an area of about ten thousand square meters. Yesterday Pope Francis also expressed his condolences for the victims. A telegram signed by Cardinal Pietro Parolin arrived in Ravanusa, in which the Pontiff expressed feelings of intense participation in the pain of the entire population and the suffering of many people, also caused by the enormous damage that weighs on many. The Pope expressed his heartfelt closeness and appreciation for those who did their utmost in the rescue operations.
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But in the village the pain is still mixed with fear and discomfort. The displaced are trying to recover personal belongings from their homes. A lady managed to take her medicines: The table was still set. We were starting to dine when the roar came. He brought some plants and a Christmas tree with him.
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December 14, 2021 (change December 15, 2021 | 01:35)
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