Blaze damages historic bridge spanning Tiber River in Rome

A cobala, may be triggered by a gas cylinder explosion, destroying the part of the historic bridge that includes the Tiber River in Rome before firefighters extinguish the initial fire on October 3.

The firefighters said the fire erupted before midnight Saturday near the Ostiense neighborhood and at 4 am they had finished their work.

No one was injured in a fire involving the industrial bridge, but three nightclubs near the Riverside neighborhood popular with young people were evacuated as precautions, the word Italian state TV said.

Blaze seems to have begun in the hut area occupied by homeless people on the banks of the river near the industrial bridge before spreading to the range itself. State Radio said the authorities believe the fire may have started with a gas cube explosion cooking by one of the homeless people.

The pedestrian road outside the bridge and stretching under the line of the road carrier utility and falls into the tiber. State radio noted that other fires a few years ago also involved huts.

The firefighters said in a tweet that the bridge is currently too dangerous to use. They also prohibit navigation underneath until the range can be repaired.

Pope Pius IX attended the inauguration of 1863 from the bridge, one of the last major construction work in Rome in the years reduced the papal state controlling the city, which would soon become a united Italian capital.

Dubbed by Rome “iron bridge,” the range initially functions as a train bridge. Then equipped with instead serving cars and foot traffic.

A plaque near one end of the range of paid tribute to the 10 women executed in 1944 by German SS troops occupied Rome during the last years of World War II. The women were convicted for occupying a bakery to feed their families in the city where the war made food rare.

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