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Three Italians die after falling into hole at volcano |
2017-09-14 |
[DAWN] An Italian couple and their 11-year-old son were killed on Tuesday when a hole opened up in the ground at a bubbling volcanic crater near Naples, a popular tourist site. Italia’s fire brigade said it pulled three dead bodies from a shallow hole in a section of the crater at the Solfatara volcano, which was surrounded by a wooden fence meant to keep tourists out. The victims were a 45-year-old man, a 42-year-old woman and their son. Another seven-year-old son did not fall into the hole and was unharmed, national fire brigade front man Luca Cari said. "Either there was a small kaboom, or the ground simply gave way from their weight, and they fell into this hole," Cari said. "It was inside a fenced-off area." Firemen on the scene said the three victims, who were on holiday from northern Italia, appeared to have died from asphyxia, possibly because of hot gases emanating from the ground. The official cause of death will be determined by an autopsy. The Solfatara volcano is one of many volcanic craters in the Campi Flegrei area, 20 kilometres west of Naples, which first opened up to tourists in 1900, according to its website. |
Posted by:Fred |
#6 An elderly lady of Gretna On holiday next to Mt. Etna: "'Proibito?' Phooey! I'll get some andouille..." And that was the end of Aunt Edna. |
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2017-09-14 21:02 |
#5 "It was inside a fenced-off area." "And Gaia was satisfied with their sacrifices, and a period of no quakes or eruptions was experienced. But shorter, as these sacrifices were congenitally stupid" |
Posted by: Frank G 2017-09-14 20:43 |
#4 Another case of Selfie Suicide? |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-09-14 17:32 |
#3 Darwin strikes again. |
Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2017-09-14 17:06 |
#2 The fence and warnings would be questioned as being inadequate. Warnings prob not multi-lingual or scaled to a 11 yo reading level. Or the deaders were stupid. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2017-09-14 14:37 |
#1 "It was inside a fenced-off area." In the USA, the ambulance-chasers would be on this stat. The fence and warnings would be questioned as being inadequate. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2017-09-14 11:40 |