A 68-year-old man and his
67-year-old wife died in an explosion Monday night in a
two-storey building on the island of Elba.
The explosion took place at Portoferraio, one of Elba's two
main ports.
The blast was due to a gas leak, police said.
It caused the building to collapse, they said.
Rescue teams using dogs pulled out three people from the
rubble alive as well as the man and woman's bodies.
The three people saved are a local family, two elderly
parents and a 46-year-old daughter.
"It's a tragedy" said the local mayor.
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