Two people were killed and seven were missing after an explosion caused a four-storey apartment building to collapse on the Italian island of Sicily, authorities said Sunday, IgbereTV reports.
Two women were recovered alive from the building in the town of Ravanusa after the collapse on Saturday night, the local civil protection service said on Twitter.
Rescuers and sniffer dogs were still searching the rubble to locate the missing on Sunday, it added.
The explosion was likely caused by a gas leak, said the authorities, who have opened an investigation