At least 30 people, including nine police officers, were injured this Friday, July 4 in Rome in the explosion of a gasoline distributor in the east of the capital, but who was heard throughout the city, according to the mayor of the city, Roberto Gualtieri.
According to the media, there was a first explosion in this gasoline and LPG distributor shortly before 8:20 am, which led to the rapid intervention of the police and firefighters, when a second explosion, the strongest, took place a few minutes later, hurting people in the place. None of the people would be seriously injured, according to the same source.
In a video shared by the Italian Media Sky TG24, we can observe a monumental explosion near other motorists and passers -by.
A firefighter was also injured, the latter wrote in X, while many teams were used to extinguish the fire that began to follow the explosion that occurred shortly after eight in the morning.
Nine police members and another twenty people are among the injured, said Roberto Gualtieri. The explosion that happened early in the morning made the windows tremble with many buildings in the Italian capital.
“I am carefully the consequences of the explosion this morning,” wrote the head of the Government of Giorgia Meloni in X, saying that they are in contact with all the authorities involved, including the mayor of Rome.
Police completed the neighborhood to allow firefighters to work and also evacuated two buildings that were closer to the explosion, as well as an airy center where fifteen children were, according to the same source.
Source: BFM TV
