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The explosion, which took place in piazzale Libia, was allegedly caused by a gas leak. Residents heard a “crazy roar”. The entrance to the building is blocked by debris.
The explosion involved the ground floor and the first three floors from a building at number 20. Some of the injured were treated aboard ambulances.
The person was seriously injured, a 30-year-old Ukrainian, was in the ground-floor apartment where the outbreak occurred and suffered second and third degree burns all over his body. The man was transported in Code Red at the Niguarda hospital. Areu reported this, explaining that they would be about fifty residents of the condominium and that from the explosion on the ground floor a fire would have developed that would have affected the first floor.
Many people went out on the street both the condominium where the explosion occurred and the surroundings. On the ground floor you can clearly see theripped open entrance of the explosion, with the debris inside, and the damaged windows up to the third floor. Unable to evacuate residents from the gate, firefighters were forced to use their stairs to get them off the upper floors.
Inside the palace occurred a series of internal wall collapses and not structural. Firefighters have started looking for some people who are probably they have moved away from the area at the time of the explosion.
Testimonials: “The shock wave moved my car” – “I was passing when the explosion occurred, the shock wave moved me one meter.” It is one of the testimonies collected by the authorities. “I had woken up a few minutes ago and was about to serve coffee, I was so scared by the blow that the coffee pot slipped out of my hands,” reported a student who lives in one of the buildings across the street facing the great square, now completely occupied by rescue vehicles, residents and spectators. “I immediately went out to the balcony, those seconds of silence immediately after the roar hit me badly – he remembered the condo of an adjacent building -. Then the screaming began and shortly after the first sirens. From afar I saw a child in poor condition, I think he was the one who was later hospitalized and is now seriously ill.
An Egyptian: “I rescued the wounded and turned off the gas” – “At 7:15 I was passing by my truck and I heard the explosion, a very strong impact, the blinds were broken. I ran in and rescued a child, I wrapped him in a wet blanket and brought him. Then I turned off the gas.” the story of Aly, the Egyptian who first rescued the seriously injured 30-year-old Ukrainian.
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