Overview

• A suspected pump detachment at a petrol and LPG station on via dei Gordiani triggered two blasts around 8:20 a.m. and ignited a blaze that remains active.
• Twenty-one people, including police officers, firefighters, medical rescuers and bystanders, were taken to hospitals with injuries ranging from burns to blast trauma.
• Flames swept through nearby buildings and reached a judicial depot, leaving structural damage to multiple properties.
• INGV seismographs recorded the shockwave from the explosion and authorities evacuated the Prenestino district and shuttered Teano station on Metro C.
• Prosecutor Giovanni Conzo has launched an official investigation to establish the precise causes of the blasts and assign responsibility.