Suviana, stalemate in the search for the missing. “Dramatic situation, a miracle is needed” –

The provisional toll from the explosion that occurred yesterday followingnoon in Bargi, in an Enel hydroelectric power plant in the Suviana artificial basin, on the Bologna Apennines is three victims, five people injured and four missing. A turbine exploded on the -8th floor of the plant, causing a collapse that involved the technicians working in that area, while “water filled the ninth and tenth floors” of the plant, said the provincial commander of the Carabinieri of Bologna, General Ettore Bramato, who explained that «water pressure is a delicate situation to monitor». In these hours the water continues to rise, preventing rescue operations: “We don’t know where the water is coming from, probably from the pipeline which is above upstream and which is slowly emptying”, said the spokesperson of the national fire brigade. of fire, Luca Cari. «If we have confirmation that it is indeed that pipeline that continues to discharge water and once that is over there are no other dangers, the divers will be able to work in greater safety, albeit in a difficult and complex scenario. The searches are not technically suspended, but at the moment the firefighters are forced to study a rescheduling of the intervention. Tonight the water level began to rise, so where until mid-night we might work with the search teams among the rubble was floor -8, which was a dry area but the water was rising, which has now exceeded one meter beyond level -8, it is impossible to continue researching the rubble”, Cari’s words.

Who in his speech on Rete4 from the hydroelectric power station of Bargi, a hamlet of Camugnano, then froze the blood of the relatives of the victims of the missing: «Hope is a must especially for those who are doing the research. We intend to find people alive, but objectively it is a scenario that does not make us optimistic. The chances of finding survivors? We are – the bitter conclusion – in the field of miracles.”