in the reserve Macalube to Aragon-Caldare
Milan , September 27, 2014 – 13:36
sudden explosion, a column of mud that gushes and squirts like a bomb had fallen on the ground, the terror and the cries of the tourists. This is the scene which took place at about 12:30 in the nature reserve Macalube of Aragon, in the province of Agrigento, where a so-called “cold Vulcanello” suddenly burst forth with gas and mud and involving a family of Joppolo: a little girl is dead, the brother is missing while his father, a policeman, is safe. The explosion would have occurred in an area where it is legal to pass people without precaution. For searches are also used dogs rescuers. The police are trying to figure out if there are other people also dispersed by checking the license plates of cars that are parked in the parking lot of access to the reserve.
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Agrigento, explodes a vulcanelloMorta a child hit by the mud
The director of the reserve, “No warning”
Moreover explains Mimmo Fontana, head of Lagambiente Sicily and director of the reserve Macalube of Aragon mass of mud and clay that has engulfed his father with his two children was caused by the overturning of the entire hill of volcanoes. The volcanoes were at the top of the hill, adds the director of the reserve Macalube, the explosion resulted in what is called ‘tipping’ the hill essentially collapsed in on itself, creating muddy area with a diameter of some hundreds of meters. At the time of the explosion the parent with two children was just up the hill, while other tourists were further away. “We had recorded an early warning of any kind, half an hour before our operators were on the hill of volcanoes and everything was normal. Suddenly then the tragedy happened, “explained yet Fontana.
Region: «Close reserve”
The governor of Sicily, Rosario Crocetta, ordered the Civil Protection Department and the Environment of the Region to immediately suspend access to the reserve Macalube of Aragon where the explosion occurred.
Survey
Meanwhile, the prosecutor in Agrigento has opened an investigation into the explosion, for ascertain the precise causes for which the child is dead. On the spot, to coordinate the investigation, is the deputy prosecutor Carlo Cinque.
You dig in the mud
How to said, a few hours after the explosion was recovered the corpse of a child of seven years. His brother, 9 years old, is still missing. You dig in the clay again. The father, who until a certain time has remained the place to dig with rescuers after being saved was then taken away in an ambulance in shock. Later in the foothills of the tragedy came the mother of two children. The woman weeps and despairs invoking the name of his two sons.
To better understand what happened you should know that in the reserve, 4 km from the town of Aragon and 15 from Agrigento, there are puddles of mud clay that sobbollono and sometimes even severe rashes occur because of natural gas in the subsoil with expulsion of hot mud, gas and water. However in this case it was a Vulcanello not active and that you are suddenly awakened in an important way. “A wall of clay and mud twenty meters high”: this is the testimony that comes from a group of German tourists, they also visit the reserve at the time of the explosion Vulcanello that hit the three.
The phenomenon gas and clay at a considerable height
The volcanoes are the result of a rare geological phenomenon defined sedimentary volcanism. Clay soils inconsistent, interspersed with layers of brackish water that overhang methane gas bubbles subjected to a certain pressure. The phenomenon is sometimes explosive character, with expulsion of clayey material mixed with gas and water thrown at a considerable height. Was six years ago the last violent explosion of volcanoes in the reserve Macalube (from maqlu’b land that turns).
September 27, 2014 | 13:36
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