Gas Explosion on Italian Island Leaves at Least 1 Dead

Firefighters on the Italian island of Elba said on Tuesday, July 22, that one person had died and another remained missing after an explosion flattened a two-story house in the town of Portoferraio.

Italian rescue services said the explosion was probably caused by a gas leak and that three people had been rescued from the rubble.

Elba is situated in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off Italy’s western seaboard. Credit: Vigili del Fuoco via Storyful