The explosion caused visible fire in different parts of the Italian capital.
Several explosions took place this Friday morning, shortly before 8:30 am, in Rome, in the Prenestino-Labicano district located in the northeast. The noise sounded throughout the city and then a large column of smoke could be seen by the inhabitants of the Italian capital.
It would be a liquefied oil gas (LPG) and fuel (petrol and diesel) gas deposit that has exploded, probably in a service station, according to the Corriere della Sera. Firefighters and police are on site. The city’s emergency plan has been launched.
\u274c#Roma, #explosion In a fuel distributor in via dei Gordiani, Casilino area: one of the #vigilidelfuoco intervened.
Teams committed to off the flames that are affecting the judicial deposit in the part behind the refueling station. … pic.twitter.com/P0zLAzFg3T– Firefighters (@vigilidelfuoco) July 4, 2025
For his part, Printing evokes a first assessment of 21 injured, including three seriously burned. And tells that the detonation was “like that of a bomb”according to residents of the neighborhood. “We did not understand what it was, all the windows were shaking. It could have been a bomb, an earthquake, we did not understand. Then, with smoke, we understood that it was an explosion”testified Francesco, tenant of a neighboring building. According to Rimanadaythe roof of the petrol station would have been propelled 300 meters.
