{"id":407945,"date":"2021-12-12T11:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T11:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=407945"},"modified":"2021-12-12T11:23:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T11:23:29","slug":"3-dead-6-missing-in-explosion-in-sicily-caused-by-gas-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/3-dead-6-missing-in-explosion-in-sicily-caused-by-gas-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"3 dead, 6 missing in explosion in Sicily caused by gas leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters in Sicily were digging through the rubble of a collapsed apartment building Sunday in the search for six missing people after an explosion apparently caused by a gas leak killed at least three, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The building was occupied by nine members of an extended family, and two visiting relatives \u2014 a heavily pregnant woman and her husband \u2014 were also on the premises when the explosion occurred late Saturday in the town of Ravenusa, firefighters said.<\/p>\n<p>Two women were rescued overnight. One of them, 80-year-old Rosa Carmina, told La Repubblica daily that the lights went out suddenly \u201cand the ceiling and floors collapsed.\u201d Her sister-in-law, who lived on the floor above her, also survived and was rescued from beneath a pile of rubble.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion also collapsed three other buildings that appear to have been unoccupied, and shattered windows in three more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was certainly a gas leak that created created a bubble of methane,\u201d the head of Sicily\u2019s civil protection agency, Salvatore Cocina, told ANSA. He said that a preliminary finding indicates that the functioning of an elevator may have set off the explosion, which was then fed by a gas space heater.<\/p>\n<p>Source: AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters in Sicily were digging through the rubble of a collapsed apartment building Sunday in the search for six missing people after an explosion apparently caused by a gas leak killed at least three, authorities said. The building was occupied by nine members of an extended family, and two visiting relatives \u2014 a heavily pregnant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":407946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-407945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407947,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407945\/revisions\/407947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}