Thursday January 12, 2017
A Somali national died and two more suffered from smoke inhalation when a blaze broke in the Florence-area town of Sesto Fiorentino, Italian media reported Thursday.
The alarm was raised at 9 pm (2000 GMT) on Wednesday in an abandoned furniture factory where 80 men and women, all of them asylum seekers from Somalia, had been camping out for several months, the Florence police commissioner's office told dpa.
The victim was born in 1972 and was living in Italy on subsidiary protection status, meaning that he had been granted temporary political asylum. He had no relatives in Italy and his name has not been released to the press, police said.
The survivors are now staying in two tents that were set up in a nearby square, according to police. The cause of the blaze are still unclear, they said.