Some 20 coffins fell into a southern
Italian river after a cemetery wing collapsed after torrential
rain recently near Benevento on Thursday, local sources said.
The incident happened at S. Agata dei Goti.
As well as the coffins, some 80 urns also ended up in the river.
"That wing of the cemetery that collapsed" said the mayor of S.
Agata dei Goti, Salvatore Riccio, "was on a 'dry' stream that,
with the heavy rains of the last few hours, has filled up with
water, which probably caused the collapse".
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