A couple and an 11-year-old
boy have died at the Solfatara volcanic crater at Pozzuoli, near
Naples, police said on Tuesday.
Another child, aged seven, survived, the sources said.
The victims fell into a pit of boiling-hot mud, according to
an initial reconstruction by the Campania Civil Protection
Department, sources said.
The three-metre-deep pit opened up as the mother and father
followed their 11-year-old son, who is thought to have gone into
an area forbidden to visitors.
Firefighters recovered the bodies, the sources said.
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