FLORENCE (Reuters) -The death toll in an explosion at a fuel depot facility near Florence, owned by Italian energy firm Eni, rose to four after two bodies were recovered under the rubble, the local prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Tuesday.
The explosion occurred on Monday in Calenzano, on the northern outskirts of the Tuscan capital, in an area where trucks load fuel to be taken to petrol stations. Other depots nearby were not affected.
The depot covers an area of around 180,000 square meters and is connected to an Eni refinery on the coast. Its 24 tanks are used to store gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
The prosecutor of the city of Prato added that search and rescue efforts continued in order to find the last missing body.
The toll stood at two deaths and nine injured and three people missing at the end of Monday. Three of the wounded were in life-threatening condition, regional health authorities said.
(Reporting by Gianluca Semeraro in Milan and Silvia Ognibene in Florence; editing by Giulia Segreti and Ed Osmond)
