Rome Fire Claims One Life and Leaves 15 Injured

The region’s mayor said one person died and 15 were injured, including two with serious burns, in a fire on Friday in a building east of Rome. Massimiliano Umberti, mayor of Rome’s fourth arrondissement where the accident occurred, wrote on his Facebook page: “According to official figures, one dead and 15 injured, two of them seriously,” stressing that there are doors that must be opened to the seven-story building. which was on fire. And the media reported that work was underway on the facade of the building at the time of the fire, and its cause was not immediately clear. Rome’s prosecutor’s office launched an investigation into the causes of the fire, which forced more than 100 people to leave their homes. The daily newspaper La Repubblica quoted a Rome fire official as saying he heard two or three explosions before the fire spread to the scaffolding around the building due to the work.