Powerful blast collapses several buildings on the Italian island of Sicily, killing at least three people while six others are still missing
Television images showed a mass of rubble, wooden beams and mangled steel in a large empty space in Ravanusa's centre, with neighbouring buildings charred and damaged.
Two women were recovered alive from the rubble in the southern town of Ravanusa after the collapse on Saturday night, and rescuers and sniffer dogs were searching to locate the missing. It was not immediately clear how many buildings collapsed in the explosion. Initial reports cited one apartment building but Sicily's regional civil protection unit said on its website that "four buildings were involved" in the incident.Firefighters sorted through the tall pile of concrete, in which various ovens, air conditioners and other domestic appliances could be seen.
"The gas probably found a cavity in which to accumulate," the head of firefighters in the province of Agrigento, Giuseppe Merendino, told the Rainews24 TV channel.
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