2024-05-07 06:17:20
(ANSA) – PALERMO, 07 MAY – “The conditions are very serious due to multi-organ damage from direct toxicity and pulmonary failure with respiratory distress”. Thus the health workers of the Palermo Polyclinic on the conditions of Domenico Viola, 62 years old, the worker hospitalized in intensive care following the massacre that occurred yesterday in Casteldaccia during some work on the sewerage system. Viola was the last to enter the tunnels and the first to be taken by the firefighters and intubated by the 118 medics. Those who escaped the tragedy, which cost the lives of five colleagues, were Giovanni D’Aleo, 44 years old, Giuseppe Scavuzzo, 39 years old, and Paolo Sciortino, 35. The three were interviewed by the agents of the Palermo flying squad who are investigating coordinated by the Termini Imerese prosecutor’s office directed by Ambrogio Cartosio. Investigators are trying to reconstruct everything that happened in those dramatic hours in Casteldaccia to ascertain who is responsible for the tragedy. The firefighters, the first to arrive together with the 118 health workers, found the bodies of the victims without masks. A serious shortcoming in delicate operations such as those that Quadrifoglio Group srl was carrying out on behalf of Amap. The same leaders of the company owned by the Municipality of Palermo are unable to explain such carelessness. The presence of lethal gases to clear blockages in sewer systems is known. In addition to the workers, the works director and the safety manager were also interviewed. The bodies of the five victims Epifanio Alsazia, 71 years old from Partinico, co-owner of the Quadrifoglio group srl company from Partinico, which had won the Amap contract; the workers Giuseppe Miraglia, 47 years old, originally from San Cipirello (Palermo), Roberto Raneri, 51 years old from Alcamo (Trapani), Ignazio Giordano, 59 years old (Partinico) and Giuseppe La Barbera, 28 years old, from Palermo (temporary worker of the Amap) were taken to the forensic medicine institute of the Polyclinic. Autopsies will have to be carried out on the bodies to ascertain the causes of death, almost certainly caused by the hydrogen sulphide they breathed and which was found in a concentration ten times higher than the limits in those tunnels. (HANDLE).
2024-05-07 06:17:20