Overview
- In Torino, an explosion at 3:15 a.m. tore through a sixth-floor mansard at via Nizza 389, collapsing the roof and damaging two adjacent apartments.
- Firefighters discovered 35-year-old Jacopo Peretti dead under rubble and hospitalized five others, including a 12-year-old boy in intensive care for severe burns.
- Eight firefighting teams from Vigili del Fuoco di Torino extinguished the blaze and conducted structural assessments of the building.
- In Sassari, rescue crews found a 63-year-old man alive under debris after a separate morning blast leveled a second-floor mansard.
- Medea, the local gas distributor, says the Sassari building was not on the municipal network, pointing investigators toward alternative gas sources.