A farm building explosion
that killed three firemen near Alessandria on Monday night was
intended to kill, an Alessandria prosecutor said Thursday.
"Whoever did it did it to kill," said Enrico Cieri of the
blast at Quargnento.
"It's clear that the incident was not due to a neighbours'
row, but it much more serious".
The condition of a Carabinieri police officer, Roberto
Borlengo, and two firefighters, Giuliano Dodero and Graziano
Luca Trombetta, who were injured in the blast is improving,
medical sources said Wednesday.
Three firefighters - Antonio Candido, Marco Triches and
Matteo Gastaldo - died in the explosion in Quargnento and an
investigation has been opened into the incident, which
prosecutors suspect was caused deliberately.
Borlengo, the Carabinieri officer, called the central station
to ask for help right after the blast saying, "be quick because
everything has collapsed here, we are dying".
Investigators are looking into possible motives including a
family fight or an incident caused to get insurance money.
Rudimentary primers and wires connected to gas canisters that
did not explode were found in the building where the blast took
place, investigative sources said.
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