At least nine people were wounded, including three children, after an explosion destroyed a town hall in the Roman suburb of Rocca di Papa on Monday, June 10, local media reported. The mayor of Rocca di Papa, Emanuele Crestini, was among those injured in the blast, according to reports. Vigili del Fuoco, Italy’s national fire service, said they believed the incident was a gas explosion. The explosion gutted the facade of the Rocca di Papa town hall and damaged a neighboring nursery school and another building that houses public offices. Credit: Vigili del Fuoco via Storyful </s> Ten people have been injured, including a child who is in critical condition, following an explosion caused by a gas leak in the centre of a small town near Rome.

The accident took place on Monday in Rocca di Papa, about 25 kilometres southeast of Rome and close to the pope's summer residence of Castel Gandolfo.

The child was seriously hurt but his life is not in danger, regional health commissioner Alessio D'Amato said in a statement, adding that he was admitted to hospital along with an adult, who has burn injuries.

Two more children were taken to hospital by their families while six adults were treated at the scene of the accident, the commissioner added.

The blast took place inside Rocca di Papa's town hall, partially destroying its facade and triggering a fire.

According to Italian media reports, mayor Emanuele Crestini was among the injured.

The children affected by the explosion were in a nursery school adjacent to the town hall, according to reports from the ANSA news agency.

Firefighters published a video on Twitter showing the street outside the town hall strewn with debris. No other victims were found among the rubble, they said.

In a statement, gas company Italgas blamed a third - unnamed - company for causing the explosion.

It said digging work outside the town hall had damaged underground gas pipes, provoking a leak. </s> Two people have died in a huge explosion at a gas station in Italy.

Among the victims was a firefighter, the fire brigade in the town of Fara in Sabina near Rome tweeted on Wednesday.

At least 17 people have been injured, according to news agency ANSA.

A tanker caught fire for unknown reasons. The force of the resulting explosion had catapulted a tanker and a vehicle from the fire brigade several meters, the newspaper La Repubblica reported.

The site of the explosion is located about 50 kilometres north-east of Rome in the province of Rieti.

"The situation is under control," Fara in Sabina Mayor Davide Basilicata wrote in the early evening on Facebook.

The site of the accident was still inaccessible and traffic was being redirected. </s> ROME: At least one person was killed and more than 60 others injured on Monday (Aug 6) when a tanker truck crashed into a lorry and exploded, sending a fireball across a busy motorway in the northern Italian city of Bologna.

The blast, which occurred in the early afternoon in the Borgo Panigale area, close to Bologna airport, caused a partial collapse of the flyover, where the explosion took place, onto another road below, filling the scene with flames and black smoke.

A video released by the police shows the moment the tanker ploughed into the back of the lorry, immediately catching fire as another lorry crashed into the back of the blazing tanker, and oncoming traffic screeched to a halt.

The three vehicles, covered by the blanketing smoke, were reduced to little more than ash by a massive explosion that swept across the motorway and could be heard throughout the city.

"I was here (at a nearby restaurant) for work ... at a certain point we heard a violent blast, i thought it was a terrorist attack," Marco Rosadini, whose car is trapped under the flyover, told the daily La Repubblica.

"After the explosion the roof of the restaurant started to collapse. I looked outside and I felt like I was looking at a wall of fire."

It took firefighters nearly two hours to extinguish the fireball, which spread to vehicles parked in a nearby lot of a car dealership.

Then rescuers began the delicate task of looking through the burned out debris to find any victims.

Italian media quoted the Bologna prefecture as saying that two people had been killed, but when asked for confirmation by AFP, a spokeswoman said that the official toll remained one dead, with 68 injured.

However, the Italian fire service told AFP that the number of dead is likely to rise.

Most of the injured suffered burns with police and firefighters among the most seriously hurt.

Others were injured by pieces of flying debris and glass the explosion caused in the surrounding area.

Speaking to television news channel Sky TG24, police officers said that the extremely high temperatures from the fire and the blast caused the road to collapse.

Fears of a terrorist attack still rattle Bologna which just last week marked the anniversary of a far-right attack on the train station that left 85 people dead and more than 200 wounded in 1980.

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said more than 100 firefighters had responded to the fiery accident, and the prosecutor has opened an inquiry.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Facebook that he would go to Bologna on Tuesday to show the government's solidarity with the victims and their families. </s> MILAN — Italian firefighters say 12 people have been killed and three injured after a van accident in a town in southern Italy.

The ANSA news agency reported that the victims were immigrant farm workers returning from work Monday. The van they were driving hit a truck carrying tomatoes head-on, causing the van to overturn near the town of Foggia.

The nationalities of the victims have not been released.

This was a separate traffic accident from the deadly tanker truck explosion that took place Monday in Bologna, northern Italy, that left at least two people dead and up to 70 injured. </s> ASCOLI PICENO, Italy (AP) — The Latest on the Italian earthquake (all times local):

Italian authorities say the death toll in an Italian earthquake has risen yet again as bodies continued to be recovered and now stands at 290.

The Civil Protection agency gave the updated figure late Saturday morning just ahead of a state funeral for some of the victims being attended by President Sergio Mattarella and Premier Matteo Renzi.

The worst hit town was Amatrice, which now has 230 confirmed deaths. It is there that the death toll has been rising.

Elsewhere, 11 were killed in Accumoli and 49 in Arquato del Tronto.

Italian authorities say the death toll in an Italian earthquake has risen to 284 people after three more bodies were recovered overnight from the rubble of Amatrice, the hilltop town that bore the brunt of the devastation.

The Civil Protection agency gave the updated figure on Saturday morning.

There were 224 deaths in Amatrice, with the rest in nearby towns.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella has visited Amatrice, a town devastated in the earthquake that hit central Italy this week and the place with the highest death toll.

Mattarella was guided by town mayor, Sergio Pirozzi, who showed him the extent of the damage. The president met and thanked rescue workers, who have been working against the clock since early Wednesday to save people trapped in rubble and recover the victims.

The president, who will later attend a state funeral for some of the victims, was taken only to the edge of the town, because it is too dangerous to enter the heart of the medieval town due to the extent of the destruction.

Residents of an Italian region devastated by an earthquake were rattled by a series of aftershocks overnight, the strongest measuring 4.2, as Italy began a day of national mourning on Saturday.

The national mourning will include a state funeral for some of the victims in Ascoli Piceno to be attended by Premier Matteo Renzi and President Sergio Mattarella.

Ahead of the funeral, caskets were lined up in a gym where mourners have been bidding farewell to loved ones, kneeling, crying and placing their hands on flower-covered caskets.

This corrects the first name of Premier Sergio Mattarella </s> Two people died and 15 others were injured Wednesday after a fuel tanker exploded at a gas station in central Italy, according to the country's firefighting service.

The incident happened at around 2.30 pm local time in the province of Rieti, Lazio region, when a fuel tanker resupplying a gas station exploded, provoking an enormous fireball. </s> A fire sparked while a tank truck was unloading gas at a petrol station located at the 39th kilometre on the busy Via Salaria, near Borgo Quinzio, in the province of Rieti, some 80 kilometres from Rome. In less than half an hour, at approximately 1pm GMT, the vehicle exploded, injurying passersby and members of the fire brigades who were trying to put down the blaze. One of the two victims was a 50-year-old fireman, Stefano Colasanti, who was not a member of the brigades called to assist but selflessly stopped to help his colleagues evacuate the area while he was passing through.

Upon confirming his death, the Italian fire service spoke of the "endless pain" they were suffering from the loss. The other casualty is a man who was hit by the blast after he stopped to check what was going on. The 17 injured, including some of the emergency responders, were taken to five different hospitals by helicopter to avoid the traffic that started piling up as soon as part of the SS4 Via Salaria, a stretch of the Italian state highway linking Rome to the Adriatic sea, was closed and cordoned by police. Davide Basilicata, mayor of the surrounding municipality of Fara in Sabina, said: "We are monitoring the situation, we have diverted the traffic and no one is allowed to go near the area of the blast.

"The situation is serious, firefighters keeps working at the scene. "The whole area has been declared a red zone and remains off limits for now." Among the injured, three are deemed seriusly harmed. And all of them have suffered blast shocks and burns.

Antonio Mannoni, police commissioner of Rieti, explained what happened to Italian news agency Ansa, saying: "I can confirm the outcome of the tragedy is heavy. "The blast sparked from a tanker which was unloading gas at the petrol station. "A first blaze had started earlier, and while firefighters were tackling it a second violent explosion took place. "At the moment firefighters are cooling down the tanker to make sure it will no longer be a threat."

Blood-chilling pictures show firefighters and police officers still working inside the cordoned area. The explosion was "like an earthquake", according to witnesses who spoke to local media. Residents living nearby described to Italian daily Repubblica the blast, saying: "An enormous roar, never heard something like that, it sounded like an earthquake." Italy's deputy prime ministers Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini both offered their condolensces to the relatives of those who died. </s> Livorno, March 28 - Two workers were killed and another was seriously injured in the explosion of a fuel tank at Livorno's industrial port on Wednesday. Sources said there may be more injured workers. The accident happened inside the Costiero Nero depot at the port, sources said. According to an initial reconstruction the workers were doing maintenance work and the tank had been emptied.
A man died and 15 others are injured after an accidental explosion at the building of the Comune in Rocca di Papa, Italy. Emanuele Crestini, the mayor of the city, was critically injured and died ten days later for his injuries, bringing the death toll to two.