At least 20 mass , many of them Russian sports fan on their way to attend a Champions League association football lucifer between AS Roma and CSKA Moscow , were injured after an escalator in the subway system post at Rome ’s Piazza Repubblica went haywire , CNN Internationalreported on Tuesday .
The incident was captured in analarming picture posted to Twitter , which showed dozens of people being shoved into a growing pile at the bottom at high speed . Some bystanders attempted to intervene , pull others off the misfunction escalator clause . photo of the moving staircase afterwards show a scraggy pile of mechanically skillful junk accumulated at the level where it met the underground flooring .
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Per CNN , Fire Brigade spokesman Luca Cari said that investigators have not yet determined the causal agency of the stroke . While CNN reported that one person was seriously injure , the Associated Press gave ahigher figure of seven . The Guardianreported that one fan of the Russian team had his groundwork sever during the incident , with a witness recite the paper it was like “ a scene from apocalypse . An moving stairway , one metre from me , began to accelerate as if it was extend crazy … .What is happening in this metropolis ? ”
“ There has certainly been a nonstarter of the escalator , ” Rome ’s firefighting headman , Giampietro Boscaino , told the Guardian . “ But we can not say how it pass off . It ’s a foreign incident . ”
CNN wrote that Rome city manager Virginia Raggi verbalize her solidarity to victims of the accident , adding that preliminary signs were that fan had been jumping and dancing on the escalator . Deutsche Welle , a German spreader , described reports from Italian medium that some of those involved were drunk as “ speculate , ” though bottleful and broken glass was base at the panorama . ( salute in public in Rome is legaluntil after in the eveningthan the CSKA Moscow - AS Roma match’sreported start up timeof 9:00 p.m. local clip . )
According to the AP , Rome officials say maintenance was have a bun in the oven out on the escalators at least once per calendar month , and have shut down the post pending an investigating .
[ CNN / AP ]
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