Overview
- Octay Stroici, trapped for about 11 hours, died at Umberto I hospital after going into cardiac arrest upon entering the ambulance.
- Two collapses occurred roughly an hour apart during restoration work at the Fori Imperiali site, with the second happening during rescue operations.
- About 140 firefighters conducted a prolonged rescue that ended with Stroici’s extraction late in the evening.
- Four workers were struck by debris, two were initially trapped, and Gaetano La Manna was freed earlier with a non-serious head injury; a firefighter was treated for eye irritation.
- The Sovrintendenza reported prior structural investigations and PNRR financing for the project, and prosecutors opened a case into possible culpable disaster and injuries.