Deaths and injuries after Florence structural collapse

Two workers are dead, two more are dying and two others are missing feared dead after a structural collapse in a Florence supermarket construction site on Friday, local officials said.

The collapse occurred Friday morning at a construction site in Florence, in Via Mariti, on the outskirts of the city where a supermarket is being built: a retaining wall reportedly collapsed.

Tuscany Governor Eugenio Giani said eight people in all were involved in the disaster, with two workers taken to hospital in code yellow.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on social media said on social media: “On my own behalf and on behalf of the Government, I express my condolences for the victims of the collapse of a girder on a building site in Florence.

“I follow with apprehension the evolution of the situation and I thank all those who are participating in the search for the missing and in the rescue operations for the injured.

“Our deepest condolences to the families affected by this terrible tragedy”.

President Sergio Mattarella has sent his condolences over a Florence building-site disaster that is feared to have killed at least six workers, Florence Mayor Dario Nardella said Friday.
“I give my heartfelt thanks to President Mattarella for voicing to me on the phone his closeness and condolences for the tragedy at the Florence building site,” Nardella said on X.

“I have proclaimed city mourning for tomorrow with a suspension of all events.” Nardella, who is in Israel on a visit, said “I will bring forward my return from the Holy land with the first flight I can get on to”.

Via ANSA