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3 survivors rescued from rubble of collapsed apartment building in Naples, Italian officials say

Italian officials say a wing of a three-story apartment building has collapsed in a seaside suburb of Naples, and three people were pulled out alive from the rubble ROME -- A wing of a three-story apartment building collapsed Sunday in a seaside suburb of Naples, and three people were pulled out alive from the rubble, Italian officials said. “As of now, there are no indications of people missing,' said Luca Cari, a spokesperson for Italy's national firefighters' corps, of the collapse of the building in Torre del Greco, a town 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Naples. Firefighters initially said they pulled out two survivors. Later a local interior ministry official confirmed Italian media reports that a third survivor was rescued. Local officials told reporters at the scene that all persons were accounted for. "It's a miracle, really a miracle,'' Torre del Greco Mayor Luigi Mennella told state TV. Some 23 people lived in the building , and the town was wor...

The mystery of the woman who burned to ashes in the apartment is still intact: A history of decades

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When police found Mary Reeser, most of her body was burned to ashes. It is difficult to understand that all furniture in the apartment is almost intact. This mysterious case for the past 70 years has not found a convincing answer. On July 2, 1951, Pansy Carpenter, Mary Reeser’s landlady, stopped by the tenant’s apartment to send a telegram. When Pansy knocked on the door, no one answered. She put her hand on the doorknob and felt unusually hot, so she called the police. Police immediately went to the apartment at 1,200 Cherry Street (St. Petersburg town, Florida, USA) and discovered Mrs. Marry Reeser, 67 years old, burned to death in a mysterious fire. Reports say that the victim’s body was burned to ashes by a “white” flame – the color shows a temperature between 1,300-1,500 degrees Celsius, equivalent to the temperature in a crematorium. The victim’s body was almost completely ash, leaving only one leg with...