Mother, son and daughter killed in two-storey residence collapse in Naples

A mother and her two young children were tragically killed following a suspected gas explosion in their Naples home on Sunday.  

The home collapsed Sunday morning in the locality of Saviano, killing a boy and a girl who lived there with their family, as well as a woman yet to be officially identified, which local media reported was their mother.

Rescuers recovered the father and a baby alive, ‘and unfortunately the lifeless bodies of the other two children,’ firefighters wrote on X Sunday morning.

Local media gave the ages of the girl and boy as four and six.

After hours searching the rubble by hand helped by sniffer dogs, firefighters had located a third victim, an unidentified woman, fire service spokesman Luca Cari told RaiNews 24.

The house collapsed following a suspected gas explosion

A mother and her two young children were tragically killed in a suspected gas explosion in their Naples home on Sunday

Local media reported that the search for another woman, though to be the grandmother who lived upstairs, continues

Local media reported that the search for another woman, though to be the grandmother who lived upstairs, continues.  

More than 60 civil protection volunteers had joined the rescue efforts, the Campania region wrote on Facebook.

The father and the baby rescued from the rubble were recovering in hospital, with the father in serious condition, media reports said.

Footage provided by firefighters showed two gaping holes in the roof of the building, which was partially collapsed.

The cause of the collapse may have been a gas explosion, news reports said.

Mayor Vincenzo Simonelli was at the scene and told reporters that the building appeared ‘crumpled up on itself,’ adding it was ‘a very serious situation.’

Media reports said a gas leak could have caused the explosion that rocked the second floor of the building, which crumbled down, covering the lower floor with rubble.